TEXT SEARCH

A text search program that is fast and easy, can replace text, and performs indexed text retrieval too, can save you time and trouble.  A slow, manual search for words, names, or expressions is an interruption of thought that most writers can do without.

 Finders Keepers^TM, a high-speed text search program, can perform a text search several ways, as well as replace text, display files containing the found words or expressions, and index an entire hard drive to perform a text search by indexed text retrieval.

SEARCH 4 WAYS

Perform a search 4 ways :  plain text, regular expressions, approximate, and sound-alike.  You can search for words or expressions in any kind of file.  The regular expressions provide a grep-like search.  The approximate and sound-alike methods enable you to search files for a word or a name even when you do not know how to spell it, or it has been misspelled in files.  Finders Keepers^TM is fast when you have it look for words file by file.  But if you let it index all your files for an index-based text retrieval, then it takes under a second to find a word on your computer.  You can view found files 6 different ways.

REPLACE WORDS SAFELY

Finders Keepers^TM can find and replace words or expressions in multiple files across directories--and keep backups of all changed files.  If you need to, you can password-disable this function.  Then Finders Keepers^TM will find words or expressions, but it will not be able to replace anything.

FOR NON-TECHNICAL USERS...

Three of the four methods for finding words or expressions with Finders Keepers^TM are "non-technical":  Plain, Sound-alike, and Approximate.  In the first two of these, you don't have to set anything; in the Approximate method, all you set is how many errors, or discrepancies, you want to allow in the spelling--usually 1 or 2.  The Plain method will find just what you type in; but the Sound-alike and Approximate methods will find words or phrases that are close to what you type in. 

FOR ADVANCED USERS...

Finders Keepers^TM has many features to suit the advanced user, including regular expressions, scores of options, batch mode, built-in binary and ASCII viewers, and indexed text retrieval.

Let Finders Keepers do the search--you do the thinking.^TM