As you may know, in Eclipse, we could search a text, which could be a field name or a method name, within a project or work-space, by using File Search. The results would be all the places that the text in question appears. Now, the issue is, I need to search for a number, i.e., 12. For example, number 12 has been used as a flag indicator in many places (in different java files) in a project, and I would like to find out all the places that this number is used. Is there a way to do this? I have tried to do the search in the same way as searching key word (File Search), but it did not work. Thank you very much.
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Define *did not work*. – Aleksandr M Jul 14 '14 at 11:07
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select your search string\number and then press `ctrl+alt+g` – Shailesh Aswal Jul 14 '14 at 11:07
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1What you described *should* work. The *File search* tab in the *Search* dialog is a pure textual search, equivalent to a `grep`. On a side note, you [**shouldn't be using magic numbers**](http://stackoverflow.com/q/47882/2685386) – blgt Jul 14 '14 at 12:35
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If you liked any post, feel free to accept it as correct answer. :-) – LastFreeNickname Aug 06 '14 at 08:24
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It is perfectly possible to use the text search for numbers.
Search => File
Containing text: 12
File name patterns: Adjust to *.java
Scope: Workspace - for full search
Should work like a charm! :-)
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Ok..
- Type
12in any file. - select the text (12)
- goto Search --> Text --> Project
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Press CTRL+H- A menu pops up.
Select the customize button and in that check File Search field
Then in the File Search tab define as follow -
In Containing Text Field - type whatever you want to search.
In File name patterns field - provide the files you want to search e.g- *.java will search for all java files.
Finally Hit search. Shall give you the files containing the search number
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