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Find in Projects Dialog
This dialog searches projects for instances of specified text or a regular expression. Open the dialog by selecting one or more projects in the Projects Window and clicking Edit > Find or Edit > Find in Projects.
This dialog contains the following fields:
- Containing Text. In this field, type or paste the text or regular expression. Click the down arrow for a drop-down list of previously used search expressions.
- Match Case. Search only for instances of the text or expression that match the exact upper and lower case characters entered in the Containing Text field.
- Whole Words. Search only for whole words. Ignore longer words that are made up in part of the text in the Containing Text field
- Regular Expression. Indicates that the entry in the containing text field is a regular expression. Click test, and another search dialog opens where you can search for one text pattern.
- Scope. The scope of projects to search. You can either search the projects you selected in the Projects window or all open projects.
- File Name Pattern. The pattern of file names, such as *.html, to search through.
- Search in Archives. Include JAR, ZIP and other archive files in the search scope.
- Search in Generated Sources. Include generated source files in the search scope.
- Use Ignore List. Use a list of files to ignore when performing the search. Click edit to open a dialog where you can add or remove files and file paths from the ignore list.
- Regular Expression. Indicates that the entry in the file name pattern field is a regular expression. Click test, and another search dialog opens where you can search for one text pattern.
- See Also
- Finding and Replacing Text
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