A literal character is a character that does not have a special meaning in the regular-expression syntax—it matches an occurrence of that character. For example, letters and numbers are literal characters. A metacharacter is a symbol with special meaning an operator or delimiter in the regular-expression syntax.
The special characters in regular expression syntax have the most power when you use them together. For example, use the following combination of the wildcard character.
Use the following expression as part of a larger expression to match any string beginning with "b" and ending with "ing":.
In the control panel, each file type has it's own option to control content search. Contents of PDF are not searched by default, you'll need to turn that on. I think it was on for the others by default, but you should verify. Or maybe go with Folder Options "always search names and contents". I'm not using this on a server with much data, can't reproduce your problem. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top.
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You can also use the adjacent Browse Even better, if you've already specified a directory, this button will append the new directory instead of replacing it. For instance, if your "Look in" value was ".
The Browse The File types option indicates the types of files to search through in the Look in directories. Select any item in the list to enter a preconfigured search string that will find files of those particular types. You can search for multiple file types by separating them with a semicolon ;.
You can also can exclude folders and files by prefixing any path or file type with an exclamation mark! If you want to use regular expressions in your search string, select the adjacent Expression Builder button that's next to the search box. For more information, see Using regular expressions in Visual Studio. The option chosen from the Look in drop-down list determines whether Find in Files searches only in currently active files or in all files stored within certain folders.
Select a search scope from the list or click the Browse You can also type a path directly into the Look in box. If you choose the Entire Solution or Current Project options, project and solution files are not searched. If you want to look in project files, select a search folder. If you use the Look in option to search for a file that you have checked out from source code control, only the version of that file that's has been downloaded to your local machine is found.
You can expand or collapse the Find options section. You can select or clear the following option s :. If this check box is selected, you can use special notations to define patterns of text to match in the Find what or Replace with text boxes.
This list indicates the types of files to search through in the Look in directories.
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