searching path in files

[Blisk]

I want to search a path instead of word in section search word
for example C:\windows\system32
when I want to search that in my files I always get nothing even when I create test.txt and put a C:\windows\system32 in it.
it doesn't find that string in test.txt

[sqa_wizard]

No problem here.
Text "C:\windows\system32" is found in test.txt

- All fields empty
- Find Text= C:\windows\system32
[x] ANSI charset (Windows)
[x] Unicode UTF-16

[petermad]

Try and search for the text C:\\windows\\system32 in stead

your example C:\windows\system32 actually will be found but something like c:\newcastle or c:\tivoli will not because TC treats \n as newline and \t as a tab.

So \n has to be changed to \\n and \t to \\t

[Dalai]

To find backslashes regardless of where they appear, they need to be doubled. I.e.

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C:\\windows\\system32

That's also stated in TC's help:

Find text
If this option is checked, you can enter text to be searched. With \t you find tabstops, and with \n line breaks (ENTER) in texts. To find a backslash \, you need to give it twice: \\ .

Regards
Dalai

[Gral]

Try and search for the text C:\\windows\\system32 in stead

your example C:\windows\system32 actually will be found but something like c:\newcastle or c:\tivoli will not because TC treats \n as newline and \t as a tab.

So \n has to be changed to \\n and \t to \\t

Surprisingly search for \n does't works that way. I can find \n always. Search for \t works as expected. Also: for find "\t" (NOT tab) it's enough to search for uppercase - "\T" with search case sensitive disabled.

[petermad]

To find a backslash \, you need to give it twice: \\ .

I know it says so in the help, but I have no trouble finding \ as long as it is not followed by n or t - I testet all the way back to TC 6.55 and that version can also find C:\windows\system32 in a text file by entering C:\windows\system32 in the "Find text" field.

[petermad]

2Gral

I can find \n always.

Not if you have a file with only one line.

[Gral]

2 petermad
Right.

[Gral]

Anyway i think search should work different way - in three modes:
1. Normal - \t \n \ search for these explicit strings
2. Extended - \t \n search for tabs and newlines respectively
3. Regular expressions

Notepad++ text editor works exactly this way.

[petermad]

As I wrote earlier searching for \ inside text files works fine, but if I want to search for \\ I need to enter \\\ in the "Find text" field.

[p.tingen]

This hit me today as well. I was searching for the literal string "{protools\ttFile.i}" but found nothing.
Searching for "{protools\" gave results, including files that contained "{protools\ttFile.i}"

I set these options:
- All fields empty
[x] ANSI charset (Windows)

And according to suggestions above, I tried searching both with single and double backslashes and lower and capital T:
- Find text: protools\ttFile.i
- Find text: protools\TtFile.i
- Find text: protools\\ttFile.i
- Find text: protools\\TtFile.i

But all to no avail.

It looks as if TC keeps treating \t as tab, which is confusing and counter-intuitive. I agree with @Gral that the three modes he/she describes would be much clearer.

[Dalai]

2p.tingen
Try with three or four backslashes.

Regards
Dalai

[Stefan2]

For to find Text {protools\ttFile.i}"
Search for: {protools\\ttFile.i}


or
Search first for: {protools\
and next for ttFile.i}
with "[x]F2 Search in found files" enabled



or
Search for: {protools.ttFile.i}
with "[x]RegEx (2)" enabled





HTH?