Search using a word or phrase in the file

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Deos anybody know how to get the "a word or phrase in the file" option to
work when doing a search ? I have a series of files with an INT extension.
The search does not find the word i am searching for and i know it is in
there.

I followed KB article 309173 and that did not help.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Tony

 

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Tony Girgenti wrote:

> Deos anybody know how to get the "a word or phrase in the file" option to
> work when doing a search ? I have a series of files with an INT extension.
> The search does not find the word i am searching for and i know it is in
> there.
>
> I followed KB article 309173 and that did not help.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi,

This one might help you out:

Add Files to Containing text Searches
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/scripts_desc/xp_fix_search.htm


Anyway, my suggestion is to install the free Agent Ransack, it searches
for text strings in all types of files, and not just in a selection
of "approved" file extensions as the built-in search does.

Download it from here:
http://www.mythicsoft.com/agentransack/default.aspx

Agent Ransack can save the search result to a file (or clipboard), as text,
comma separated text or tab separated text. E.g. Excel reads comma separated
text (csv) very well.

When searching for text inside files, Agent Ransack is also able to do a
preview of the lines the text was found in (just do a single click on the
found file).
Also, you can use regular expression on both the file name part and the find
text in files part.





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