The Find section of the Project Commander has a button labeled “Start” and an edit box labeled “Find what”. Enter in the edit box whatever you want to find in Find or Replace operations. Click on the “Start” button to start a Find or Replace operation.
There are Four Ways to Search for text in your project or other files: Plain-text search, Regular Expression search, Approximate search, and Sound-alike search. Choose which search to use on the Find menu or toolbar. What you enter in the Find edit box is interpreted differently by each of the four ways to search.
A Plain-text search interprets your entry in the Find edit box literally. That is, the search is made for your entry exactly as it appears in the Find edit box.
A Regular Expression search interprets your entry in Find according to the rules of Regular Expressions. Therefore, some symbols in your entry, such as [] \ + * ?, have special effects during the Find operation. A regular expression is a formula for what you are looking for.
An Approximate search interprets your entry in Find as an approximation of what you are looking for, and allows errors, or discrepancies, in matching your entry. Set the number of allowable errors in Find | Options.
A Sound-alike search interprets your entry in Find as a representation of a spoken sound, and searches for what sounds like your entry.
The Find operation is affected by settings you make in Find | Options and on the Find toolbar.
See also: Replace, Replacement Expressions
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