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Retrieving a string from all projects

The Retriever is a very powerful tool for formulating fuzzy queries.
Let's try this out by getting information about menu handling. To do so:

  1. Select the Ignore Case check box.
    The search is now no longer case-sensitive.
  2. Delete the filter in the Filter field.
  3. In the Retrieve field type menu , then press Retrieve.
    As you can see, there are 1358 matches.

        Note
        For the first query an index is generated for the checkmarked projects, subsequent queries are then much faster.

    Let's further restrict the search using the assignment filter:

  1. Press the Filter... button.
    The Find and Replace Filters dialog appears.
  2. Select assignment from the regular expression list.
  3. Press Ok.
    Notice that there are 72 matches in the project, where a variable called
    menu (or similar) is assigned a value.