Online Documentation for SQL Manager for SQL server

Find Text dialog


The Find Text dialog is provided for quick and flexible searching for specified text within the working area of SQL Manager editors.

 

 

Text to find

Enter a search string in this box. The Arrow-Down button which can be found next to the input box allows you to select any of the previously entered search strings.

 

Options

 

CheckBox Case sensitive

This option can be used to differentiate uppercase characters from lowercase ones during the search process.

 

CheckBox Whole words only

Use this option to search for words only (with this option off, the search string might be found within longer words.)

 

CheckBox Regular expressions

Recognizes regular expressions in the Text to find field.

For example, you can type "empl*" to search for metadata containing the "empl" substring; enter "^emp" to search for words starting with "emp" or "^emp|emp$" to search for the string "emp" at the beginning or at the end of the string.

Note: The syntax of regular expressions that can be used in the Text to find field is similar to that used in Perl regular expressions. Comprehensive information about it can be found at http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html#Regular-Expressions.

 

frmFindText

 

Direction

 

RadioButton Forward

Searches from the current position to the end of the working area.

 

RadioButton Backward

Searches from the current position to the beginning of the working area.
 

Scope

 

RadioButton Global

Searches within the entire working area, in the direction specified by the Direction setting.

 

RadioButton Selected text

Searches only within the currently selected text, in the direction specified by the Direction setting. You can use the mouse or block commands to select a block of text.

 

Origin

 

RadioButton From cursor

The search starts at the cursor's current position, and then proceeds either forward to the end of the scope, or backward to the beginning of the scope depending on the Direction setting.

 

RadioButton Entire scope

The search covers either the entire block of selected text or the entire script (no matter where the cursor is in the Editor area) depending upon the Scope options.

 

 

CheckBox Mark search result with stack marker

The option toggles marking search results. If this option is selected, stack markers are set at all search positions - this makes it possible to jump from one marker (search result) to another within the text.

 

 

Click the Show All button to highlight every occurrence of the search string.