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    Can anyone recommend a good tool for searching strings in the source files? I don't want to use Visual Studio IDE or Windows Explorer search options. The tool (either GUI or command line) should be fast enough to search in the files (.h/.cpp/.asp./.cs/.js) for a given string.( ex: all occurrences of the string...) TIA
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      Can anyone recommend a good tool for searching strings in the source files? I don't want to use Visual Studio IDE or Windows Explorer search options. The tool (either GUI or command line) should be fast enough to search in the files (.h/.cpp/.asp./.cs/.js) for a given string.( ex: all occurrences of the string...) TIA
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      Jon Sagara
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      http://www.ultraedit.com[^]

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        Can anyone recommend a good tool for searching strings in the source files? I don't want to use Visual Studio IDE or Windows Explorer search options. The tool (either GUI or command line) should be fast enough to search in the files (.h/.cpp/.asp./.cs/.js) for a given string.( ex: all occurrences of the string...) TIA
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        Jorgen Sigvardsson
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        Kant wrote: I don't want to use Visual Studio IDE or Windows Explorer search options. Ever tried a windows port of grep? grep in conjunction with find and xargs is my favorite on Unix. I know the Cygwin distribution have these tools. But maybe installing Cygwin is a bit too much just to search for strings. :~ (At least I didn't suggest installing a Unix-like operating system :rolleyes:) -- I am of The Clan of Xymox. I wear a pink kilt!

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          Jon Sagara wrote: http://www.ultraedit.com[^] But will it search for all file types? Thx for the link. I think I got an old version of it, let me check it.
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            Can anyone recommend a good tool for searching strings in the source files? I don't want to use Visual Studio IDE or Windows Explorer search options. The tool (either GUI or command line) should be fast enough to search in the files (.h/.cpp/.asp./.cs/.js) for a given string.( ex: all occurrences of the string...) TIA
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            Daniel M Edwards
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            Windows comes with a utility called "findstr", it runs just like grep does for the most part.

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              Can anyone recommend a good tool for searching strings in the source files? I don't want to use Visual Studio IDE or Windows Explorer search options. The tool (either GUI or command line) should be fast enough to search in the files (.h/.cpp/.asp./.cs/.js) for a given string.( ex: all occurrences of the string...) TIA
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              HPS Search can do what you want. We are doing a last round of beta tests for Version 1.1, and you can download and try this free, fully-functional beta here. This latest version allows you to add HPS Search to the Explorer right-click menu (you can also run HPS Search standalone, or from the command line), and supports four types of searches, including regular expressions. Use the following name/key: beta user 6F2E-38BE-616D-887D-CABF-6656-4297-7EEE-0D56-DF96-FB46-1116-00C7

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                Can anyone recommend a good tool for searching strings in the source files? I don't want to use Visual Studio IDE or Windows Explorer search options. The tool (either GUI or command line) should be fast enough to search in the files (.h/.cpp/.asp./.cs/.js) for a given string.( ex: all occurrences of the string...) TIA
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                Tomas Petricek
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                You can use my very old program FileFinder :) Ok.. It isn't better than Vs.Net search or Windows search, so I don't know why you should use it :~ It is wtritten in Pascal (for Win16) :-D User interface is in czech, but i think you can understand it... http://www.eeeksoft.net/tomas/upload/ffwin.exe[^]

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                  HPS Search can do what you want. We are doing a last round of beta tests for Version 1.1, and you can download and try this free, fully-functional beta here. This latest version allows you to add HPS Search to the Explorer right-click menu (you can also run HPS Search standalone, or from the command line), and supports four types of searches, including regular expressions. Use the following name/key: beta user 6F2E-38BE-616D-887D-CABF-6656-4297-7EEE-0D56-DF96-FB46-1116-00C7

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                  HPSI wrote: fully-functional beta here. I downloaded it.. It's cool.. Files searched : 4,301 Number of files with matches : 31 Total number of matches in all files : 172 Search time : 1:04.3 (min) :cool: Is there anyway to send the output to a text file? Thx for the link.
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                      Can anyone recommend a good tool for searching strings in the source files? I don't want to use Visual Studio IDE or Windows Explorer search options. The tool (either GUI or command line) should be fast enough to search in the files (.h/.cpp/.asp./.cs/.js) for a given string.( ex: all occurrences of the string...) TIA
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                      Okeno Palmer
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                      Try InfoRapid Search & Replace http://www.inforapid.com/[^] It's pretty decent and search various file types. .:. Keno .:.

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                        HPSI wrote: fully-functional beta here. I downloaded it.. It's cool.. Files searched : 4,301 Number of files with matches : 31 Total number of matches in all files : 172 Search time : 1:04.3 (min) :cool: Is there anyway to send the output to a text file? Thx for the link.
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                        Kant wrote: Is there anyway to send the output to a text file? Yes. Go to File | Save Results. You can also print the results, and copy them to the clipboard (via right-click menu). Once you have a list of results, you can double-click on a line item to open the file in your editor. See Options | Preferences | Editor. If you have some directories that you frequently search, you can set them up as Speed Folders - go to Options | Preferences | Speed Folders. If you have any other questions or suggestions please let us know. High Plains Software support@highplains.net

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                          it really does rock huh? i couldnt live without my copy


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                          l a u r e n wrote: it really does rock huh? i couldnt live without my copy It's awesome, I love it. :cool:

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