Searching

Code Browser has two types of search and replace: iterative and global. The global one searches all occurrences of a string and displays a list of links to matching lines.

1. Regular Expressions

Regular expressions can be used to search and replace complex expressions.

1.1. Special Characters in Search Pattern

Expression	Description
.	Matches any single character except newline
^	Matches the beginning of line if it is the first character of the search pattern
$	Matches the end of line if it is the last character of the search pattern
?	Matches the preceding character or group zero or one time
*	Matches the preceding character or group zero or more times
+	Matches the preceding character or group one or more times
( )	Group. Used to reuse the matched expression in the replace pattern or to repeat a pattern using ?, * or +
[ ]	Matches a set of characters. The expression between bracket is a list of characters and range of character. A range of character is defined using the '-'. Example: [a-zA-Z_] matches any alphabetic character and the underscore. If the first character in the list is a '^', the expression matches all characters except the set of characters.
\t	Matches the tab character
\	Matches the character following the backslash: the next character will not be considered as a special character. Useful to match ., ^, $, ?, *, +, [, ], (, ) or \.

1.2. Special Characters in Replace Pattern

Expression	Description
\\	Inserts a backslash.
\1-9	Inserts the corresponding group.