You can search for text strings in the Workbench as follows:
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In the Workbench toolbar, click the Search button |
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In the Search Expression field, type in: it. The combo box for the Search Expression field also lets you select from a list of recently performed searches. |
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You can select or deselect the Case sensitive check box depending on whether or not you want to perform a case sensitive or insensitive search. We want to search for lowercase "it" so check the Case sensitive box. |
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In the File name patterns field you can specify the kinds of files to include in your search. Click Browse... to open the Type Selection Dialog. This dialog provides you with a quick way to select from a list of registered extensions. For the moment we will confine our search to .txt files. Ensure .txt is checked and click OK. |
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In the Scope field you can specify the files and folders to include in the search. The choices are: the entire workspace, the currently selected resources in the Workbench, or a working set which is a named, customized group of files and folders. Leave the scope as workspace. |
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The Customize button allows you to choose what kinds of searches are available in the dialog. This setting may be left unchanged. |
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Click Search. Note that you can click Cancel to cancel the search while it is in progress and that the Search dialog shows the progress of the search.
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Observe that the Search view displays:
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In the next section we will learn how to work with the Search view.