I'm trying to search through my entire project using CMD + SHIFT + F.
When I'm searching for anything that contains a dot (.) in the query the search will not find anything even though I literally just copied it from the code. For example I am searching for this:
self.init
and I get "no results for self.init"
I can't find any option that maybe regular expressions would be activated.
How can I make XCode to find any string I type into the search field (even when it contains dots)?
Press command4, or shiftcommandf to open the left side menu. In there, you can search using regular text search, regex, and more.
When searching for plain text, make sure that you're not matching regex. For this, press the button next to Find and select Text from the dropdown:
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I want to find the last occurrence of a string in a large text file in Windows. Is there a way to do this using Notepad++ (also do suggest methods beyond Notepad++ if you know a better method)?
I don't want to install any add-on or anything else, if possible.
Thanks.
Just press Ctrl+F or from the Menu - Search -> Find
and then type your string in search field.
In direction choose Up, and it will start from the end.(Make sure you haven't point your mouse anywhere on the text before all this, or it is before the first character in the file.)
I'm using Xcode 5, and want to find a word (ex:variable name) not by substring match but by exact match (or prefix match). In file wide search (Command-F), I can use Textual search or regular expression search by clicking the arrow button just right of the glass icon and choosing "Edit Find Options...".
But, I cannot find any option to search on project wide search ("Find in Project", Shift-Command-F), in Xcode 5.
One thing I can do is run "grep -w" on Terminal.app. But, isn't there any way to search word in Project inside Xcode?
Well it seems that the search tool in Xcode 5 is a bit confusing for a lot of people. In my opinion Apple should have done a better work letting the user know of what is clickable and what not... That being said, here is how you access the different options:
Once we switch to the Find Navigator we see 3 components (Find>Text>Containing)
Now, you can click on any of them to select between different options (à la jumpbar)
And finally you can also click the In Workspace (or In Project) to change the scope of your search
In Xcode 6 the problem I was having was that my Framework folder wasn't being searched, even though it was clearly part of the project (but in /Library/Frameworks), and even when I had one of its files open with the string showing in the editor.
Changing the scope from In Project to My Scope (as shown) even allowed me to find the search string in non-frameworks folders.
I have objects with similar names and when searching the project in xcode for e.g. currentTrack, objects with a name e.g. currentTrackList also appear in the search finder.
Is there a way to exclude strings or pick out e.g. only currentTrack and ignoring currentTrackList from search query?
I have heard about Code Pilot but never used it. Can code pilot do this?
If you look at the drop down in the search tab (next to the search icon there is a downwards arrow in the search field), there is an option called show find options, in that there is a section called Hits Must:
Change that to match search term
By default its on contain search term
In Xcode < 4, you could hold the "option" key, and the "Replace All" button would change to "Replace in Selection". As of Xcode 4, this does nothing. Anyone know if there's a new way to do it, or is it bug filing time?
This appears to be working again now, at least in Xcode 4.4.1.
When the find/replace bar appears at the top of the editor, holding down the option key on the keyboard causes "Replace in Selection" to appear in lieu of "Replace All."
I'm glad, because this was an ANNOYING omission.
Another workaround:
In Xcode, select the text, press copy
In a terminal session:
pbpaste|sed 's/SOURCETEXT/NEWTEXT/g'|pbcopy
Return to Xcode window, press paste
Since the original should still be selected, it will just be replaced. You could probably build a simple shell script to do this.
Doug
An few images to supplement the chosen answer:
And holding down Option:
See also
Find/Replace in Xcode using Regular Expressions
Seems like missing functionality. You should file a bug report.
I'm upset that they took out this functionality, as I used it constantly, but here's my workaround. Copy your selected text from Xcode4 to TextEdit or some other word processor, do the find and replace there, and then copy the results back into Xcode.
It's not sexy but it's worth it if you do a lot of these "find and replace on my selection", and you leave the word processor open in Spaces as you work.
They should add "my selection" as an alternative to "workspace" and "my scope".
There is another way only replace the matches you find, rather than just this one or all of them.
I suggest you save a copy first, just in case....
In Find and Replace, Show Find Options (you can do this by pressing the magnifying glass).
Press Preview.
Uncheck all the ones you don't want replacing.
Press Replace
Hope that helps, it did me.
Not ideal, but not too bad:
Do a find and replace in workspace (cmd-opt-shift-f) enter your desired find/replace
Enter your desired search term and hit return
Select the range of replacements from the list of matches on the left
Hit replace (not replace all)
To replace text in a selection using Xcode 9
Press Option-Command-F to bring up the find/replace box.
Enter the search and replace string. Changing the search string will lose any existing selection, so..
Make your selection (again). (If you don't do this, the selection will be the first search string found only)
Hold down the key and "Replace All" will change to "Replace Selection", then click it.
Once you understand that you make your selection AFTER you have entered the search string, then this is not that clumbersome and works fine.
I find alt-command-f easier for local find and replace (4.3) and then working around your selection.
EthenA.Wilson asked in a comment to the OP a couple of days ago:
"Is there a way to do this in Xcode 5?"
For the benefit of those who, like me, had been searching for it, here's how:
After you put your Find and Replace terms in the bars at the top left-hand side of the editor page, select the text you want to search in, then look at the top right-hand side (same bar). You'll see where it says "All", right next to "Replace." Now press the Option key. "All" will change to "All in Selection." Click it, and you're done. Could be a bit more intuitive, but the functionality is there in Xcode 5.
Naturally, good idea to take a snapshot before you click!
HTH!
Not sure which feature prior to Xcode 4 you're referring to, but the shortcut Command+Shift+E gives you "Use Selection for Replace". If you're talking about "Find and Replace in Workspace" (Command+Option+Shift+F), then what you need to do is run your find and then hold down "Shift" or "Command" on the selections shown and then hit "Replace".
I'm pulling my hair out on this and Google results are skewed since it thinks I want to find out how to code something.
My problem is that when trying to search my code with the String Matching box it finds nothing, even if I enter something that is on the screen below.
Is it Spotlight that is delivering these results? I'm not excluding anything in my Spotlight index so should I just rebuild the index?
At the top of the Xcode search field, you probably want to select:
Find > Text > Containing
rather than any of:
Find > Text > Matching
Find > References > Matching
Find > References > Containing
I did not (knowingly) switch this to "Text Matching" or "References", but there it was set. "Text Containing" is a more useful search type for most searches.
This happens to me after doing this: from editor, select a word, then right-click on it, then choose "Find Selected Symbol in Workspace".
As a consequence, the finder automatically sets itself to:
Find > Reference > Containing
To search for a given text, you have to re-set it to:
Find > Text > Containing
Sometimes this happens to me when the "In Selected Items" is selected in the combobox on the right side of the search string.
If this selected, you only get a search in whatever files are selected in your project window. Change it to "In Project" to search all your source files.
Note that the files need to be inside of your current Xcode project (just opening them from the finder won't add them.) You may also be interested in the "In Open Files" option, which is faster for large projects.
Even with all filters disabled as described in previous answers, Xcode still doesn't always find all occurrences of a string in some of my projects, even though these occurrences are reached just fine when choosing Jump to Definition.
To do a literal full text search (note, this is much slower than the pre-indexed search), you can create a Search Scope that just searches the full project folder, by adding a Folder location in the Scope editor:
I got stuck on this one because I didn't realize that I had to hit RETURN to see the search results, haha. Normally the results changes dynamically as you write, but Xcode 11 apparently doesn't have that feature yet.