Searching for Text in Your Project

How to:

You can easily search for text throughout your entire project using the Search project command. (You can also search for text in an individual project component such as a procedure while editing as text. For more information, see How to Find Text.)

WebFOCUS Maintain displays the results of your search in the Find tab of the Output window.
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Procedure: How to Search for Text in Your Project

To search for text in your project:

  1. In the Edit menu, click Search project.

    or

    Click the Search project button on the General toolbar.

  2. In the Search project dialog box, enter the text for which you want to search in the Find What box or use the text from a previous search by selecting it from the list.
  3. If you want to match the case of the text for which you are searching, select Match case.
  4. If you want to build more complex searches using regular expression syntax, select Regular expression.

    Note: You can create some powerful searches using regular expression syntax. For more information, try searching the Web.

  5. Click Find Now.
  6. If the Output window is not open, open it by clicking Output window in the View menu.
  7. WebFOCUS Maintain displays a list of the project components that contain the text in the Find tab of the Output window. To open a component at the instance of the text, double-click its line in the Find tab.
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