Context of "Search in contents" results?

[bbfyy]

Maybe I missed this, but I'd like to:

- Find Files > Contents > plain text string

and have it show the actual line where the string was found -- is that possible? (not the line number, the full line)


So if I search for "dog", the results would show something like

animals.txt "The red dog jumped over the blue cat"

[highend]

Welcome to the forum.

No, this is not possible atm.

[ds1508]

You could do this with a script. But this would not be very effective or fast.
For what do you need this? Search in selected files only, complete directories, witch file types?
Writing a script then should not be that hard.

What do you want to do with the result?
A simple list, selectable, results to a log file?

[highend]

A "scripted" way (you need to execute this after your search is complete and ofc you need the pro version of XYplorer) could look like this:

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    $results = "";
    foreach($file, <get itemspathnames |>) {
        $query = get("find_contents");
        $content = regexreplace(readfile($file), "\r?\n", <crlf>) . <crlf>;
        $matches = regexmatches($content, "^.*" . $query . ".*?(?=$)", <crlf>);
        $results = $results . quote($file) . ":<crlf>" . $matches . <crlf 2>;
    }
    text "Results:<crlf>========<crlf 2>" . $results;

Be careful it's only written for literal searches, wildcards are not translated into regex expressions...

[bbfyy]

Thanks for the replies.

I use this for finding the correct file when there are lots of results.

So I search for a text string but get a ton of results and if the results show the context then it's much easier to visually scan the results to find the correct file.


Can I assign a button to an external tool that accepts the current folder as a command-line option? I was thinking of using Grepwin ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/grepwin/?source=navbar ) since it does show context for results.

[highend]

Sure you can.

Add a user button to the toolbar like this one:

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This is the code for the left click:

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run """D:\Tools\grepWin\grepWin.exe"" /searchpath:""<curpath>""", <xypath>, 0, 0;

You have to change the path to grepwin (for the icon + the script line) and add additional parameters if you need them...

[bbfyy]

Awesome, thanks!