Find Dialog Box

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The Find dialog box enables you to find files in your project. You open this dialog box by right-clicking any folder in the Projects window or Files window and choosing Find. The dialog box has four tabs, each of which enables you to find files by specifying different criteria.

You can use more than one tab to perform a search by entering a search in each tab and ensuring that Use This Criterion for Search is selected. When this checkbox is selected, you see an asterisk (*) next to the tab's name.

In each tab, you can save your search criteria by clicking Save Settings As, and you can run a previously saved search by clicking Restore Saved.

The search will run on files accessible from the node selected, so if you want to search all files in the project, be sure to select the project node. Also, the search operates only on saved files, so if you are not finding something that you know is there, try saving your project.

The four search tabs are:

Results are displayed in the Search Results window as nodes. If you do not see what you are looking for, you can click Modify Search to try again.

If you click a node (a file) in the Search Results window, you see all the matches in the pane on the right, and a code editor opens and selects the first line where the search text was found. You can move to the next result in the file by clicking the list of results in the Search Results window to the right of the node list.

Click Show All Details to print a complete list of occurrences of the search text in the Output window.

Click Modify Search to change your search criteria. The modified search will use the same node as the original search.

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Searching Files
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