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IAR Embedded Workbench for Arm 9.70.x

Find in Files dialog box

In this section:

What do you want to do?

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The Find in Files dialog box is available from the Edit menu.

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Use this dialog box to search for a string in files.

The result of the search appears in the Find in Files message window—available from the View menu. You can then go to each occurrence by choosing the Edit>Next Error/Tag command, alternatively by double-clicking the messages in the Find in Files message window. This opens the corresponding file in an editor window with the insertion point positioned at the start of the specified text. A blue flag in the left-hand margin indicates the line with the string you searched for.

Find what

Specify the string you want to search for, or a regular expression. Use the drop-down list to use old search strings/expressions. You can narrow the search down with one or more of these conditions:

Match case

Searches only for occurrences that exactly match the case of the specified text. Otherwise, specifying int will also find INT and Int.

Match whole word

Searches only for the string when it occurs as a separate word (mnemonic &w). Otherwise, int will also find print, sprintf and so on.

Match regular expression

Interprets the search string as a regular expression, which must follow the regular expression syntax of the ECMAScript specification as defined by the C++ standard for the std::regex library.

Look in

Specify which files you want to search in. Choose between:

For all projects in workspace

Searches all projects in the workspace, not just the active project.

Project files

Searches all files that you have explicitly added to your project.

Project files and user include files

Searches all files that you have explicitly added to your project and all files that they include, except the include files in the IAR Embedded Workbench installation directory.

Project files and all include files

Searches all project files that you have explicitly added to your project and all files that they include.

Directory

Searches the directory that you specify. Recent search locations are saved in the drop-down list. A browse button is available for your convenience.

Look in subdirectories

Searches the directory that you have specified and all its subdirectories.

File types

A filter for choosing which type of files to search—the filter applies to all Look in settings. Choose the appropriate filter from the drop-down list. The text field is editable, to let you add your own filters. Use the * character to indicate zero or more unknown characters of the filters, and the ? character to indicate one unknown character.

Stop

Stops an ongoing search. This button is only available during an ongoing search.