newbie question (windows search contents)

homerjsim · Post by **homerjsim** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 4:44 pm

Hi
I have a hopefully simple question - often I'd like to be able to search the *contents* of my java source files, but I guess because java files are Unicode/UTF-8, the Windows XP search (that stupid dog!) can't see the contents (apparently it only sees standard text files).

Does anybody know of a utility that would do this for me?

Thanks in advance,

Brian Ales
bales@nyc.rr.com

s_reynisson · Post by **s_reynisson** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:16 pm

Try pressing Ctrl-F5 in Textpad

homerjsim · Post by **homerjsim** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:20 pm

No, maybe I didn't make myself clear, I want to search the contents of mulitple files *at the Windows (desktop) level*

(not from within TextPad)

thanks anyway

s_reynisson · Post by **s_reynisson** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:29 pm

Hmm, perhaps from the java IDE you are using?
Or something like this http://www.webattack.com/get/lookdisk.html ?