Installation guide
5 Workspace, Search Path, and File Operations
7 Click a colum n heading to sort the results based on that column. Click
the column heading again to reverse the sort order for that column. For
example, click Line to sort results by line number.
Opening Files from Find Files
Toopenfilesshownintheresultslist,dooneofthefollowing:
• Double-click the file
• Select the files and press Enter or Return
• Right-click the selected files and select Open from the context menu
The files open in the Editor/Debugger. For text searches, the file opens
scrolled to the line number shown in the results section of the Find Files
dialog box. Once in the Editor/Debugger, you can use the Find & Replace
tool to change specified text.
Previous Results of Find Files
To see the results of a previous search, select its tab at the bottom of the
results pane. Find Files shows up 10 search result tabs wh ile the tool is
open, but does not maintain the results after you close the tool.
MATLAB maintains the state for options in the Find Files tool even after
you end the session.
Skip File Types in Find F iles
In the Find Files tool, you can res trict t he search to look in all fi le types
except those you specify:
1 For Include only file type(s), select All files (*).
2 Select the Skip file type(s) check box.
3 Click Edit to view or change the list o f file types the search ignores.
The Ed it Skipped File Extensions dialog box opens.
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