HOWTO: Search For Text Using Regular Expressions

To find file(s) of the required type containing the text that matches a pattern, do the following.

1. Specify the folder in which you want to find files. For example: C:\MyWebFiles\Projects
2. Set mask(s) of the files that you want to find. For example: *.htm*;*.asp;*.cpp
3. Provide the pattern in the Find What field for the matching text that you want to find.
   

   For example, you want to find HTML files containing the <OBJECT> tags, not simply word OBJECT. The corresponding pattern would include:

   • the opening tag;
   • tag name (OBJECT);
   • as the tag may contain attributes, some wildcard operator and repetition operator that would match the remaining tag inner text;
   • the closing tag.

   The pattern in this case would look as follows:

   \<OBJECT.#\>

   
   
4. Click the Search button. This is important to click this button rather than Replace, to not replace occurrences of the found text.