Replacing Text In Disk Files

To invoke the Replace In Files Dialog window click on the Replace In Files toolbar button (or press the Ctrl+Shift+H keys).

Text To Find

Enter the text that you wish to search for. Click on the button to display a menu of regular expression choices. The expression you chose from this menu will be inserted into the find text. Click on this link for more information about regular expressions.

Regular Expressions

Check this box if the text to find contains a regular expression. If this box is not checked then any regular expressions will be interpreted as literal text. Click on this link for more information about regular expressions.

Text To Replace With

Enter the text that you want to replace matching text with.

Look in

Specify folder where you wish ABCFind to look for VB Project files (.vbp). You may use the browse button to select a folder. Multiple folders may be entered by separating them by a semi-colon ';' character.

Include files named

If you wish to filter the filenames to be searched then specify them here, separated by spaces. For example, if you specify "class" here then only filenames that contain the text "class" will be searched.

Options

Case Sensitive - whether ABCFind ignores letter-casing when looking for matching text.

Whole Word Only - if checked, only search for whole words that match the search criteria.

Include Comments - if checked, include commented code in the search scope.

Files Modified Date

Date Range - Check if you wish to limit the files to be searched to those that have a modified date within a specified range.

Advanced Options

Include files in Subfolders - check this if you wish to recursively search in subfolders of the folders specified above in 'Look In' for .vbp projects.

Include Orphaned Code Modules - if this is checked then ABCFind will search for code modules without first looking for any owning VB project file (.vbp).

Find All

Click this button to find all text that matches the criteria. All search results will be displayed in the Search Results Window.

Replace All

Click this button to find all text that matches the criteria and replace with the text specified in 'Text to replace with'. All search results will be displayed in the Search Results Window.

If ABCFind replaces text in any read-only files then the file will be checked out of SourceSafe first. If ABCFind is unable to determine the SourceSafe database that the file belongs to then an error will be displayed.