In LW CVI 5.5.1 is there a way to perform a "Find in files" search (i.e. finding a token in a list of files instead in a single file) ? I mean something similar to the MSC Visual C++ "Find in files". Thanks in advance.

[stephan]

Hello
When you open the "find" dialoge, you can see a check box titeled "Multible Files". When you check it, you will see a list box with all the files of the current directory.
Here, you can mark the files that you want to be searched.
Stephan

[ElbaTech]

Thanks for the suggestion. It would be useful, however, to obtain soon a list of occurrences with respective file and line numbers, instead of proceding step by step with F3 to find next occurrence and to wrap among files. Exactly what happens with the cited MS Visual C++. If this is not possible now, will NI insert this feature in the next CVI update ?

[Chris_W1]

Elba:

Yes, National Instruments is planning on adding "source browsing" capabilities, similar to those of Microsoft Visual C++, to a future version of LabWindows/CVI.

Thanks for the Suggestion,

Chris Wood
Applications Engineer
National Instruments

[Ken_From_Axeon]

Also, if the instance looked for is not in the first file (F3 til found) then by pressing Ctrl-T will prompt CVI to skip to the next selected file in the multiple file selection.

[Ryykker]

Short of writing an app that will search through a list of files using strtok, or something similar, there is a utility called WinGrep by hurricane software. www.hurricanesoft.com. I have used it for years. It works very well with CVI, or any other dev tool you are using.