Find
Use this dialog box to specify a string to search for, as well as options to
use when searching for text in a viewed file.
Options
- Find
- Provides a space for you to specify the search text or regular expression
to match. Type the text or expression in the Find box. Use the drop-down list
to select previous search strings. If you use regular expressions, be sure the
Regular expression check box is selected.
- Search forward
- When selected, indicates that the direction of the search will be from the
current view position towards the end of the file.
- Search backward
- When selected, indicates that the direction of the search will be from the
current view position towards the beginning of the file.
- Whole words
- When selected, finds only text strings that match the Find string and are
preceded and followed by a space, tab, or punctuation character, or that occur at the
start or end of a line. Otherwise, the search finds any matching string, even if
it is a fragment of a larger string.
- Case sensitive
- When selected, searches for text strings that match the case of the
characters in the Find string exactly. Otherwise, the search finds strings
with either uppercase or lowercase characters that match the characters in
the Find string.
- Regular expression
- When checked, enter a regular
expression in the Find box. Regular expressions are much more powerful than simple
text strings; you can use them to find text with specific attributes,
such as "pattern begins at the beginning of a line",
"pattern ends at the end of a line", "pattern starts with a specific prefix and ends with
a specific suffix", "pattern is one word from a set of words", or "pattern contains only
characters from a particular character sequence (e.g., numbers)".
See Also
Searching