Find

Use this dialog box to specify the string to search for, as well as the options to use when searching for text in a document.

Dialog Box Options

Find

Provides a space for you to specify the search text, regular expression, or the hexadecimal value to match. Type the text or expression in the Find box. Use the drop-down list to select previously used search strings. If you use regular expressions, be sure the Regular Expression check box is selected. If you use a hexadecimal value, be sure the HEX-mode check box is selected.

HEX-mode

Use this mode to enter the pattern character by character as hexadecimal numbers. You can also enter normal text in hexadecimal mode, but it must be enclosed in double quotes. For example, if you enter '01 02 "text" 00', the pattern contains 7 characters, 2+4+1.

Search forward

When selected, indicates that the direction of the search will be from the current view position to the end of the file.

Search backward

When selected, indicates that the direction of the search will be from the current view position to the beginning of the file.

Whole words

When selected, finds text strings that match the Find string and are preceded and followed by a space, tab, or punctuation character, or are at the start or end of a line. Otherwise, the search finds any matching string, whether it is a fragment of a larger string or not.

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, type a regular expression into the Find box. Regular expressions are much more powerful than simple text expressions, and you can use them to find text with specified attributes. These attributes include, for example, "pattern begins at the beginning of line", "pattern ends at the end of line", "pattern starts with some prefix and ends with some suffix", "pattern is one word from a set of words", or "pattern contains only characters from some character sequence (e.g. numbers)".