Difference between revisions of "Find in files"

Revision as of 13:27, 10 August 2017

Find in files allows you to search for a string in multiple files in a location of your choosing. The files don't have to be open in UltraEdit.

Enter the string to search for in the Find what field, which allows a single or multi-line string up to 20,000 bytes.

In addition to regular characters and strings, the Find what field supports searching for several special characters and strings with special notation. For example, "^t" will match a tab. For a complete list of these values, see Special search characters. These special characters are valuable for matching non-printable text in files.

You can specify the search location(s) in the Directory field. This field may contain multiple search paths separated by semicolons, i.e.: C:\mydir1\; c:\mydir2\.

The In files/types field allows you to restrict the search to particular file types by extension. For example, to search only HTML and CSS files, you would use: *.html;*.css. If left empty, all files are searched.

If the Find string is left empty, UltraEdit will return a list of all file names matching the other search settings. This can be useful in generating a directory listing.

Use the In setting to set the search area to one of the following:

• Files listed will search all files in the directory you specify)
• Open files will search all files open in UltraEdit)
• Favorite files will search only [Favorite files]
• Project files will search all files in the open project (this option is disabled if no project is open)

History button
This button displays a scrollable find history list.

Favorites button This button opens the search favorites menu with the following options:

Regular expressions help button
This button opens a short regular expression syntax reference for the selected regular expression engine. This button is subdued unless the regular expressions checkbox is checked.