Option

Description

Case Sensitive

When selected, the case must match. Searching for PRINT will not find pRint. With this option turned off, Print will find print, PRINT, PRinT, etc.

Whole words only

When selected, only whole words are considered. A whole word is a word that is surrounded by spaces, or that is at the start of a line. Looking for PRINT will find : "Print test" and "print" and "print print". But not "printer"

Regular expressions

You can use a regular expression to find a match.

^        A circumflex at the start of the string matches the start of a line.

$        A dollar sign at the end of the expression matches the end of a line.

.        A period matches any character.

*        An asterisk after a string matches any number of occurrences of that string followed by any characters, including zero characters. For example, bo* matches bot, bo and boo but not b.

+        A plus sign after a string matches any number of occurrences of that string followed by any characters except zero characters. For example, bo+ matches boo, and booo, but not bo or be.

[ ]        Characters in brackets match any one character that appears in the brackets, but no others. For example [bot] matches b, o, or t.

[^]        A circumflex at the start of the string in brackets means NOT. Hence, [^bot] matches any characters except b, o, or t.

[-]        A hyphen within the brackets signifies a range of characters. For example, [b-o] matches any character from b through o.

\        A backslash before a wildcard character tells the Code editor to treat that character literally, not as a wildcard. For example, \^ matches ^ and does not look for the start of a line.

Forward

This is the search direction. By default it will search forward.

Specifies the size of the software stack.

Backward

This is the search direction. You can use backwards in case you pressed F3 too many times and want to go back to the previous found text.

Global

All the text of the current editor will be searched.

Selected text

Only the selected text will be searched.

From cursor

Search from the current cursor position to the end of the code.

Entire scope

Search from the current cursor position to the end, then search till the start of the cursor position. This will search the entire text.