Find Text in Files and retrieve the line number

Question

I am trying to (programatically) find references to a specific string i.e. \'LOCK_ID\' within a large number of VB6 files. To help people navigate directly to the reference

Answer 1

there are a number of tools to do this. I'll list them in edit as I think of them. The first to come to mind is TextPad (menu: search / search in files)

Second tool: UEStudio.

Both of these are paid tools. There are trials, they are quick to install, etc.

Failing that, you could install Cygwin for some Linux style grep functionality.

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Q&A to comments

in that case load the file in, split it on "\n", keep a counter, and do the search yourself -- probably with RegEx regular expression.

... there is a cool LINQ Expression here (you just need the where portion): Linq To Text Files

Work with the directory class recursively to catch all files.

http://www.dotnetperls.com/recursively-find-files