#350 grepWin not working as expected

[Anonymous]

Originally created by: jalbuqse...@gmail.com

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. It seems grepWin only finds text in text files or similar.
It does not find anything in MS Word (doc or docx), Excel (xls or xlsx)
or PDF non-scanned files, for example.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Version 1.6.1.519. Windows XP Pro SP3 fully updated. 

Please provide any additional information below.
MS Office Professional Edition 2003 SP3

I'm attaching a screen capture of a folder search (only 2 .doc files in the folder). I'm also attaching a ZIP with those 2 files. The search string was copied from one of the files. The result: 0 matches found.

Both Windows Search feature and SearchMyFiles correctly detected the appropriate file.

Thanks for your help.
José

[Anonymous]

Originally posted by: tortoisesvn

That's working as expected. grepWin searches for TEXT. doc/docx/xls/xlsx/pdf files are not text files but binary (e.g., docx/xlsx are basically zip files).

That's why grepWin can't find text in them because they don't contain text.

Status: Invalid