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Finding Text in Files
There are different ways to find text in files:
Finding Text in the Current File
Within the current file, select the text you want to find. From the Edit menu, select Find Selection. The next occurrence of that text is selected. Select Find Selection again (or Find Next) to continue finding more occurrences of the text.
To find the previous occurrence of selected text (find backwards) in the current file, select Find Previous from the Edit menu. The previous occurrence of the text is selected. Repeat to continue finding the previous occurrences of the text.
Finding and Replacing Text in the Current File
You can search for specified text within multiple files, and then replace the text within a file.
Finding Text. To search for text in files, click the Find button in the Editor/Debugger toolbar, or select Edit -> Find and Replace. Complete the resulting Find & Replace dialog box.
The search begins at the current cursor position. MATLAB finds the text you specified and highlights it. To find another occurrence, click Find Next or Find Previous, or use the keyboard shortcuts F3 and Shift+F3 (or Command+F3 and Command+Shift+F3 with Macintosh key bindings).
MATLAB beeps when a search for Find Next reaches the end of the file, or when a search for Find Previous reaches the top of the file. If you have Wrap around selected, it continues searching after beeping.
Use F3 and Shift+F3 to continue finding the specified text even after closing the Find & Replace dialog box. You can go to another file and find the specified text in it.
Change the selection in the Look in field to search for the specified text in other MATLAB desktop tools.
Replacing Text. After finding text using the Find & Replace dialog box, you can replace the text in the current file:
You can repeat this for multiple files.
Function Alternative for Finding Text. Use lookfor
to search for the specified text in the first line of help for all M-files on the search path.
Finding Files or Text in Multiple Files
To find directories and filenames that include specified text, or whose contents contain specified text, use Edit -> Find Files. For details, see Finding Files and Content Within Files.
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