CODEWITHSUNDEEP
visual-studiosearchvisual-studio-2013
Matt
Matt

Reputation: 27026

How can I search in source code of Visual Studio solution with AND / OR?

In Visual Studio solutions, how can you search through the entire source using more than 1 search term (for example: search for files where "fibonacci" AND "sum" is contained and display the results - likewise with OR)?

I know you can press CTRL+F, enter the first keyword and then search in the displayed results again (via: "Search in files" option), but it is not the same - and what if you need more than 2 terms to look for?

For example: If I am looking for:

"Get" AND ( "sum" OR "product")

which will find properties like

How can this be achieved?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 151

Answers (1)

rory.ap
rory.ap

Reputation: 35318

You can turn on regex and put in Fibonacci.*(Procuct|Sum) as the search expression:

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This expression will find all instances of Fibonacci followed by zero or more characters and then followed by either Product or Sum.

There are many useful references for regular expressions; one of my favorites is this: http://www.regular-expressions.info/reference.html

Upvotes: 1

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