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Finding Text Across Many Files

Complete the following steps to search in all project files for a text string:
  1. Open the Find menu and click Find in Files.
    • On Windows, you can instead press Ctrl-Shift-F.
    • On macOS, you can instead press Cmd-Shift-F.
  2. In the Find box that appears below the editor, type the text string you want to find.
  3. (Optional) In the box to the right of the find button, enter a pattern for the filenames you want to match. Several patterns can be separated by a comma, and files can be excluded by beginning a pattern with a minus sign.
    By default, all files are matched except those whose names begin with a dot.
  4. Click the Find button.
    The Search Results window appears below the editor.
  5. Double-click a line in the Search Results window to open the source file in the editor.