IDE Window: Find
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If this dialog is invoked by Ctrl+F or by Search > Find then it the replace buttons and options are disabled.
If this dialog is invoked by Ctrl+R or by Search > Replace then the replace options will be enabled.
- Text to Find
- Replace With
The above two comboboxes contain the last searched texts and replace patterns. Cursor Down will go back in history and fetch the last text to find.
Hint: You can choose, whether the IDE starts the dialog with the word at the cursor in the source editor or with a blank field in Environment -> Editor Options -> General -> Find text at cursor
Options
- Case sensitive - distinguish lower case and upper case (a and A)
- Whole words only - The found text must start at a word start and end at a word end
- Regular Expressions - see IDE regular expressions
- Multi line - not implemented yet
- Prompt on replace - ask before replacing (only enabled if replacing)
Origin
- From Cursor - start search at cursor. If direction is forward, it searches till the end of the file
- Entire Scope - If direction is forward it starts searching at the beginning of the file and searches till the end.
Scope
- Global - search in whole file
- Selected Text - limit the search to the selected text
Hint: To search multiple files use Search -> Find in files.
Direction
- Forward search - search top to bottom. Each line is searched from left to right.
- Backward search - search bottom to top. Each line is searched forward - left to right.
Regular Expressions
Special Chars in Search Term
If you checked Regular Expression, you can use the following special chars in the search term (list is not complete)
- \\
- Matches a single \
- \n
- Matches a newline
- \(
- Matches a normal Bracket (
- ()
- Remembers the text matched. See $n in next section
- .
- Any single one character
- []
- Exactly one of the chars listed inside the brackets ( [aeiou] => one vowel )
- 0, 1 or more of the char before ( .* => as many chars as possible )
- +
- 1 or more of the char before ( .+ => as many chars as possible, minimum 1 )
- ?
- 1 or 0 of the char before
- ? +? ??
- same as * + ?, but as little as possible
- |; either the term before or the term after
Special Chars in Replace Term
If you checked Regular Expression, you can use the followin special chars in the replace term
- \\
- Inserts *one* normal backslash
- $n ${n}
- Where n is a number between 1 and 15. Inserts a copy the part of the found text matching the nth pair of bracket "()" in the search term (eg $1 for the first char after foo, if the search term was "foo(.)" )
- \n
- Inserts a Linebreak
- \l \u
- Lower or Uppercases the *next* Char. Use this in front of $n. \u$1 Will insert the match from the first brackets, but with it's first char made uppercase
- \L \U
- Lower or Uppercase the *full* text of the next $n. The $n must follow immediately