I realize this doesn't do you any good today. But when you get VFP 9 you are in for a major treat with the Code References tool. It understands VFP metadata and in general makes Filer seem about as high tech as dirt. Whoever wrote it did a really nice job.


>Thanks Jason
>
>For the simple reason that I'm still on V7. Evevn if I were to order 9 today, it's today (now) I want to do the searching.
>
>Cheers
>
>Terry
>
>>Terry
>>
>>Why don't you use filer in VFP9?
>>I use that whenever I need to find a text string.
>>
>>Regards
>>
>>Jason
>>
>>>I've go a dilemma in that looking at some old rubbish code (FPD26), tables are continually opened in specified work areas and closed. Now there's a table that I need to ensure I keep open throughout the app. I do:
>>>
>>>Select 0
>>>Use DefDirs
>>>
>>>But 0 returns 1, as this is the first table oppened. Within a heartbeat there is code to:
>>>
>>>Select 1
>>>Use Whatever
>>>
>>>and this happens (1 used) throughout this sorry suite of code.
>>>
>>>So it looks like my only recourse is to open DefDirs in a numbered area that won't get re-used.
>>>
>>>Now AFAIK you can only use 25 work areas in FPD26. I was thinking of opening DefDirs in 25. But I need to check through this labyrynth of progs to check that 25 (or whatever) isn't used somewhere else (for the same lame reason).
>>>
>>>Anyone know of a readily-available tool that can search a bunch of files for a specific string?
>>>
>>>'ppreciate it
>>>
>>>Terry