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Navigating through an Object


Navigating

You may quickly move to a particular part of the object. To move to a particular part of the object being viewed/edited, enter the required offset in the Go to Offset field between the buttons.

You may also use the Go To Offset dialog box to go to a specified place in the object. Click the Offset field on the Status bar. You may also use this dialog box to copy the offset.

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Go To Offset dialog box

Click to expand/collapse Go To Offset options

From:

Jump / offset direction. For example, if you need to find the offset from the object end for a selected byte, switch to the End (backward) option.

HEX / DEC

Switch between the hexadecimal and decimal data representation.

Range

Range of values that can be entered.

dec / hex:

Alternative data representation.

Offset:

Flat data offset (without separation between the sector and offset in the sector).

Sector / offset

Data offset represented as a sector and offset in the sector.

Go! /OK buttons

The Go! button moves the cursor to the specified positions, but the Go To Offset dialog box remains open. The OK button closes the dialog box after moving the cursor.

Searching

To search for a particular string, click the Find , Find Next , or Find Previous buttons or the same items on the Edit menu, and specify the string on the Search dialog box.

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Search dialog box

Click to expand/collapse Search options

Not Equal

Search for the place which content is not equal to the string. For example, the first byte not equal to 00 or FF .

Search for

HEX

Field for the string to search for in the hexadecimal representation

ANSI

Field for the string to search for in the ANSI encoding

OEM

Field for the string to search for in the OEM encoding

UNICODE

Field for the string to search for in the UNICODE encoding

Match case

Select this check box to make the search case-sensitive

Search area

From current position

Select this check box to start search from the current position

From start position

Select this check box to start search from the beginning of the object

From Address

Select this check box and specify the range in which the search is to be carried out

Search position

Exhaustive search

Select this check box to search the entire object

Search at offset

Select this check box and specify the sector offset from which the search will start

Reverse

Select this check box to start the search in the reverse direction

Find all

Select this check box to search for all instances of the string to search. Search results will be shown in the Find Results pane.

Text/hexadecimal Editor will show the search progress.

Search results are shown on the Find Results pane. You may easily move to the required found item by clicking the item.

Click to expand/collapse Features of the Not Equal option

Suppose we have an object which first 3 consecutive sectors start with:

Sector1   FILEAAAAA..............................................

Sector2   FILEBBBBB..............................................

Sector3   NOTAFILE...............................................

And the search string is Not Equal FILE .

If the Exhaustive search option is selected, the Text/hexadecimal Editor will stop at the first A character in Sector1 .

If the Search at offset=0 option is selected, the Text/hexadecimal Editor will stop at the N character in Sector3 .

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