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^\s*IF\s.*=\s*''.*$

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>I'm not up on RegExpressions, and want to do a search project wide looking for...
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>any statement that has an IF statement with a double single-quote like...
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>IF lcSomeVar = ''
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>of course, it may be a space or a tab after the IF, and may have a space or tabs after the = sign...
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