To find text, type the text string to find, and choose Find Next. (The first time the dialog is used, the word located by the insertion point or the currently selected text appears in the Find What text box.) If the text string is found, it is highlighted. Choosing Find Next again highlights the next occurrence of the text.

Note: You can close the dialog box and choose Edit|Search|Find Next Text or press Ctrl+K to repeat the last Find Text command.

dBASE Plus remembers the contents of the Find What text box. Unless text is highlighted in the editor, each time the Find Text dialog is opened dBASE Plus will prefill the Find What text box with the most recently used search string.

When multiple files are open in the source editor, you may search for the same text in each file simply by clicking the filename tabs.

Dialog box options

 

Match whole words

Check this option if you want to search for the text as an independent group of characters, not a string included in other words. Otherwise, the search finds the text both as an independent group of characters and within longer words. For example, if you're searching for "tool," dBASE Plus will highlight the word "toolbar" as well as "tool."

Match case

Differentiates between uppercase and lowercase letters when searching. For example, "Toolbar" is different from "toolbar" when Match Case is on.

Direction

Up searches from the cursor location to the beginning of the file.

Down searches from the cursor location to the end of the file

How to get there: Choose Edit|Search|Find Text.