Find and Replace - DAC Manual

Find and Replace

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Find

Replace

Find All

Replace All

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The Search and Replace toolbar is a row of buttons with icons representing the most frequently used functions

Find

The Find command realizes the standard search function. The entire file (Scope / Entire file), or just the selected text (Scope / Selected text) can be searched. Origin (From cursor / Entire Scope) determines starting point of search and Direction (Forward / Backward) determines whether search is performed towards the end or the beginning of the document. Additional options are: Case sensitive (make difference between upper and lower case characters), Whole words only (match only if search string is whole word in text) and Regular expressions (allow more complex search with search string as regular expression pattern). The process can be continued using the Search > Next and Search / Previous commands.

Replace

The Replace command realizes the standard search and replace function. The entire file (Scope / Entire file), or just the selected text (Scope / Selected text) can be searched. Origin (From cursor / Entire Scope) determines starting point of search and Direction (Forward / Backward) determines whether search is performed towards the end or the beginning of the document. Additional options are: Case sensitive (make difference between upper and lower case characters), Whole words only (match only if search string is whole word in text), Regular expressions (allow more complex search with search string as regular expression pattern) and Prompt on replace (ask for confirmation before every replace). The process can be continued using the Search > Next and Search / Previous commands.

Find All

The Find All command realizes a search through all files of the current project for a string. The scope of search can be limited with "Folder or group selected in Project Manager" option. If "Explorer view" tab is selected in Project Manager, then search is performed on all files with extensions given in "Options > Project / File Types". Additionally, files can be filtered with "Search in" options. Other options are: Case sensitive (make difference between upper and lower case characters), Whole words only (match only if search string is whole word in text) and Regular expressions (allow more complex search with search string as regular expression pattern). All found occurrences are displayed using the standard Browser.

Replace All

The Replace All command realizes a search through all files of the current project for a string, replacing it with another one. The scope of search can be limited with "Folder or group selected in Project Manager" option. If "Explorer view" tab is selected in Project Manager, then search is performed on all files with extensions given in "Options > Project / File Types". Additionally, files can be filtered with "Search in" options. Other options are: Case sensitive (make difference between upper and lower case characters), Whole words only (match only if search string is whole word in text), Regular expressions (allow more complex search with search string as regular expression pattern) and Open modified files (modified files will be opened in editor if not already). This option make Undo available for all modified files. If the file is not in an Editor, a backup file will be created. Otherwise, the Editor will create a backup of the file while saving it to the disk. All found occurrences are displayed using the standard Browser.