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Negative search [message #330547]

Fri, 01 August 2008 07:36

Dimitrios Kolovos

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi,

Does anyone know how (or if it is possible at all) to do a negative file
search (e.g. find all .java files that do *not* contain the word "foo")
in Eclipse?

Cheers,
Dimitrios

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Re: Negative search [message #330548 is a reply to message #330547]

Fri, 01 August 2008 07:51

Laurent Goubet

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Hi,

Cannot regexes do the trick? "Search => Files..." tick "regular
expression" and search for "\A[^\Qfoo\E]*\Z" while setting the file
filter to *.java.

This seems a little "overkill" for such a task, but I think this would
work as expected.

Regards

Laurent Goubet
Obeo

Dimitrios Kolovos a

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Re: Negative search [message #330550 is a reply to message #330548]

Fri, 01 August 2008 08:08

Dimitrios Kolovos

Messages: 1776
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi Laurent,

Thanks for your reply! I was hoping they would but I can't seem to get
them working. Instead, I've scribbled a "Negative Search Engine" by
changing the locateMatches method of (a copy of) the
org.eclipse.search.internal.core.text.TextSearchVisitor class (in case
anyone else is interested) and this seems to do the trick.

Cheers,
Dimitrios

laurent Goubet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Cannot regexes do the trick? "Search => Files..." tick "regular
> expression" and search for "\A[^\Qfoo\E]*\Z" while setting the file
> filter to *.java.
>
> This seems a little "overkill" for such a task, but I think this would
> work as expected.
>
> Regards
>
> Laurent Goubet
> Obeo
>
> Dimitrios Kolovos a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anyone know how (or if it is possible at all) to do a negative
>> file search (e.g. find all .java files that do *not* contain the word
>> "foo") in Eclipse?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dimitrios
>

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