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| <h1>File search</h1> |
| <p>In the Search Dialog, the File Search tab allows you to search for files or text in the Workbench. You can bring |
| up the Search Dialog by clicking on the Search toolbar button.</p> |
| <h2>Containing text</h2> |
| <p>Type the expression for which you wish to do the text search. Leave this field empty to search for files.</p> |
| <p>From the drop-down menu, you can choose to repeat or modify a recent search.</p> |
| <h3>Wildcards</h3> |
| <p>The available wildcards for search expressions are displayed in the search dialog:</p> |
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| <li>"*" matches any set of characters, including the empty string</li> |
| <li>"?" matches for any character</li> |
| <li>"\" is the escape for a literal; if you want to search for an asterisk, question mark, or backslash character, |
| type a backslash before it to indicate that you are not using these characters as wildcards (e.g., "\*", "\?", or |
| "\\")</li> |
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| <h2>File name patterns</h2> |
| <p>In this field, enter all the file name patterns for the files to find or search through for the specified |
| expression.<br></p> |
| <h3>Wildcards</h3> |
| <p>The available wildcards for file name patterns are displayed in the search dialog:</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li>"*" matches any set of characters, including the empty string</li> |
| <li>"?" matches for any character</li> |
| <li>"!" excludes the given file name pattern, e.g. "!*.html or !plugin.xml</li> |
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| <h2>Case sensitive</h2> |
| <p>Turn this option on if you want the text search to be case sensitive.</p> |
| <h2>Regular expression</h2> |
| <p>Turn this option on to specify that the search text is a regular expression.</p> |
| <h2>Whole word</h2> |
| <p>Turn this option on if you want to search for whole words that are identical to the search text.</p> |
| <h2>Scope</h2> |
| <p>Choose the scope of your search. You can either search the whole workspace, pre-defined working sets, previously |
| selected resources or projects enclosing the selected resources.</p> |
| <h1>Quick Text Search</h1> |
| <p>As an alternative to the Search Dialog and Search View, you can also use the <a href= |
| "../gettingStarted/qs-36c.htm">Quick Text Search Dialog</a> to search for textual matches in the workspace and |
| quickly jump to them. It is described in detail <a href="../gettingStarted/qs-36c.htm">here</a>.</p> |
| <h3 class="related">Related concepts</h3><a href="../concepts/csearchview.htm">Search view</a><br> |
| <a href="../gettingStarted/qs-36c.htm">Quick Text Search Dialog</a><br> |
| <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3><a href="../tasks/tasks-84b.htm">Searching for files</a><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-84.htm">Searching for text within a file</a> |
| <h3 class="related">Related reference</h3><a href="ref-26.htm">Search view</a> |
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