Built-in Text Searchers

Built-in Text Searchers

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Clicking on the search button in the lower right corner of the text viewer or pressing the Ctrl+F shortcut activates the in-file search pane, which allows searching inside the currently opened document by using different search modes.

Currently the following built-in text searchers are available:

Literal text searcher

This text searcher allows searching for literal text inside the currently opened document.

It's possible to toggle the following options:

Option	Description
Match case	This option controls, whether search should be case-sensitive or not.
Match whole word	This option controls, whether search should be word-wise or whether partial matches are accepted.

Query text searcher

This text searcher allows searching for text inside the currently opened document using Lucene query syntax. The search is always word wise only.

It's possible to toggle the following options:

Option	Description
Match case	This option controls, whether search should be case-sensitive or not. NOTE: This is currently not working!

Wildcard text searcher

This text searcher allows searching for text inside the currently opened document using wildcards.
The following wildcard characters are supported:

Wildcard	Description
?	Matches a single arbitrary character.
*	Matches zero ore more arbitrary characters.
#	Matches a digit ( 0-9 ).
[[character-set]]	Matches any character inside the specified set. You can also specify character ranges. Example: [[a-z]]
[[!character-set]]	Matches any character outside the specified set. You can also specify character ranges. Example: [[!a-z]]

It's possible to toggle the following options:

Option	Description
Match case	This option controls, whether search should be case-sensitive or not.
Match whole word	This option controls, whether search should be word-wise or whether partial matches are accepted.

Regular expression text searcher

This text searcher allows searching for text inside the currently opened document using regular expressions. The syntax used is the one of the .NET Framework.

It's possible to toggle the following options:

Option	Description
Match case	This option controls, whether search should be case-sensitive or not.
Match whole word	This option controls, whether search should be word-wise or whether partial matches are accepted.

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