BatchFindInFiles Method (Editor Object)¶
Searches multiple files for multiple strings. The resultant list of the
searched files will be displayed on the current window. If the document is not
saved, this method will display the prompt message whether to save the file. filters Specifies a Filters Collection which contains search strings and flags. strPath Specifies a path to search from. It can include wild cards such as * and ?. nFlags Specifies a combination of the following values. eeFindOpenDirect Directly opens the document that includes the specified string. Cannot combine with eeFindOpenFilter or eeFindOutput. eeFindOpenFilter Directly opens the document that includes the specified string, and set the specified string as the filter. Cannot combine with eeFindOpenDirect or eeFindOutput. eeFindOutput Displays the Find in Files results as a list in the Output Bar. Cannot combine with eeFindOpenDirect or eeFindOpenFilter. eeFindRecursive Searches in subfolders of the specified path. eeFindReplaceIgnoreFiles Ignores the files or folders specified by strFilesToIgnore. eeOpenDetectAll Detects all encodings. eeOpenDetectCharset Detects HTML/XML Charset. eeOpenDetectUnicode Detects Unicode signature (BOM). eeOpenDetectUTF8 Detects UTF-8. Additionally, you may specify one of the following values. eeFindFileAndMatched File names and matched strings will be displayed. eeFindFileLineAndMatched File names, line numbers and matched strings will be displayed. eeFindFileNamesOnly Only file names will be displayed and the whole lines containing the searched string will not be displayed as results. eeFindLineOnly Only the whole lines containing the searched string will be displayed as results. eeFindMatchedOnly Only the matched strings will be displayed as results. nEncoding Selects from the Encoding Constants,
or specify any code page used in the Windows Operating System. If 0 is specified or omitted, the encoding specified in the configuration properties associated with the searched file name will be used. strFilesToIgnore If nFlags includes eeFindReplaceIgnoreFiles, specify the file or
folder names to ignore. It can include wild cards such as * and ?. To specify
multiple files, use semicolons (;) to separate them. nExFlags Specifies a combination of the following values. However, only one of eeExFindRegexBoost and eeExFindRegexOnigmo can be specified. If none of these two is specified, the default regular expression engine is used. eeExFindCountFrequency Creates a table of frequent strings from the Extract results. Must combine with eeFindLineOnly or eeFindMatchedOnly. eeExFindMulti Performs Bulk Find. If this is not specified, performs Batch Find. eeExFindOutputEncoding Appends encoding names to file names. eeExFindRegexBoost Uses Boost.Regex as the regular expression engine. eeExFindRegexOnigmo Uses Onigmo as the regular expression engine. nLimit EmEditor stops searching files when the number of matches reaches this number. If 0 is specified, EmEditor does not stop searching files. The return value is the total number of lines containing matched strings in all the searched files. Supported on EmEditor Professional Version 20.0 or later.¶
[JavaScript]¶
nFound = editor.BatchFindInFiles( filters, strPath, nFlags, [ nEncoding, [ strFilesToIgnore, [ nExFlags, [ nLimit ] ] ] ] );
[VBScript]¶
nFound = editor.BatchFindInFiles( filters, strPath, nFlags, [ nEncoding, [ strFilesToIgnore, [ nExFlags, [ nLimit ] ] ] ] )
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