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When being displayed in search template, variable values are converted to <A HREF="msearch-cmdref-browsercharset.html" >BrowserCharset</A >. </P ><P > <B CLASS="command" >ReplaceVar</B > can also be used to set <A HREF="msearch-doingsearch.html#search-params" >search query parameters</A > in <TT CLASS="filename" >search.htm</TT >, without having to pass them in <ACRONYM CLASS="acronym" >CGI</ACRONYM > query string. This example sets sorting order to <CODE CLASS="varname" >title</CODE >, like if the <CODE CLASS="option" >s=s&su=title</CODE > parameters would have been passed in <ACRONYM CLASS="acronym" >CGI</ACRONYM > query string: <PRE CLASS="programlisting" > ReplaceVar s s ReplaceVar su title </PRE > </P ><DIV CLASS="note" ><BLOCKQUOTE CLASS="note" ><P ><B >Note: </B > <B CLASS="command" >ReplaceVar</B > has higher precedence over <ACRONYM CLASS="acronym" >CGI</ACRONYM > query string parameters. In the above example <SPAN CLASS="application" >search.cgi</SPAN > will sort search results strictly in <CODE CLASS="varname" >title</CODE > ascending order, no matter what the user pass in <CODE CLASS="option" >s</CODE > and <CODE CLASS="option" >su</CODE > query string parameters. </P ></BLOCKQUOTE ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN11800" ></A ><H2 >Examples</H2 ><DIV CLASS="informalexample" ><P ></P ><A NAME="AEN11802" ></A ><PRE CLASS="programlisting" > ReplaceVar etcdir "/usr/local/mnogosearch/etc/" Include $(etcdir)/include1.conf Include $(etcdir)/include2.conf </PRE ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="refsect1" ><A NAME="AEN11804" ></A ><H2 >See also</H2 ><P > <A HREF="msearch-cmdref-importenv.html" >ImportEnv</A >, <A HREF="msearch-cmdref-include.html" >Include</A >, <A HREF="msearch-templates-oper.html#templates-oper-set" >the Section called <I >The <SPAN CLASS="emphasis" ><I CLASS="emphasis" >SET</I ></SPAN > operator</I > in Chapter 10</A >. </P ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="msearch-cmdref-remotefilenamecharset.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="msearch-cmdref-resultcontenttype.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >RemoteFileNameCharset</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="msearch-cmdref.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >ResultContentType</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><!--#include virtual="body-after.html"--></BODY ></HTML >