Development Environment

Finding and Replacing Content Within Files

From the Current Directory browser, you can search for a specified string within files. If the file is open in the Editor, you can replace the specified string in a file.

Finding a Specified String Within a File

To search for a specified string in files:

1. Click the find button in the Current Directory browser toolbar.

The Find & Replace dialog box appears. This provides the same features as the Find & Replace dialog box accessible from the Editor/Debugger.

2. Complete the Find & Replace dialog box to find all occurrences of the string you specify.
• Type the string in the Find what field.
• Select the directories to search through from the Look in listbox, or type a directory name directly in this field.
• Constrain the search by checking Match case or Whole word.
• Check the box for Subdirectories if you want the search to also look through the subdirectories.
3. Click Find.

Results appear in the lower part of the Find & Replace dialog box and include the filename, M-file line number, and content of that line.

4. Open any M-file(s) in the results list by doing one of the following:
• Double-clicking the file(s)
• Selecting the file(s) and pressing the Enter or Return key
• Right-clicking the file(s) and selecting Open from the context menu

The M-file(s) opens in the Editor, scrolled to the line number shown in the results section of the Find & Replace dialog box.

5. If you perform another search, the results of each search are accessible via tabs just below the current results list. Click a tab to see that results list as well as the search criteria.

Function Equivalent.   Use lookfor to search for the specified string in the first line of help in all M-files on the search path.

Opening, Running, and Viewing the Content of Files

Replacing a Specified String Within Files