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If selected, BOOK will not match book.

Whole word

: The search string must not appear as part of another word: book will not match mybook.

Regular expression

: If selected, the search term becomes a regular expression. For example, b.*k would match book.

Search Script Events

: If selected, the text of script events on actions is also searched. This is important if renaming a variable, for instance.

Press <Enter> or click the Search button to search for your specified term. For each match, the Target, action, property and value are shown. Note that a single action usually matches several times, because the string is contained in the title, the log title, and so forth.

Double-click on a match to highlight the action in the Design & Debug window. You can then use the keyboard shortcuts F3 and Shift+F3 to move forward and backward through matches.

Replace Options

To replace matches, first perform a search as above.

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The string that search matches will be replaced with.

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None

No replacements can be made. Functions as a sort of "safety catch".

 Replace

Replacements will be made as normal.

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  • Search for "rm (.*).txt" with Regular Expression flag on.
  • Replace with "del $1.xml" with Substitute Regular Expression Matches flag on.
  • A match such as "delete file.txt" will be replaced with "del file.xml"

Controls

Search

Press <Enter> or click the Search button to search for your specified term. For each match, the Target, action, property and value are shown. Note that a single action usually matches several times, because the string is contained in the title, the log title, and so forth.

Double-click on a match to highlight the action in the Design & Debug window. You can then use the keyboard shortcuts F3 and Shift+F3 to move forward and backward through matches. 

Stop

Aborts the search, if it is taking too long.

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