I have a large number of DBF files and I want to find out if any of them contain a certain string.

The Search in Windows Explorer does NOT find it even if I open a dbf file and copy an exact string, then use Search utility to find that string, it still says NOT FOUND

I am not sure what field it will be in, but it will be a 10 digit number, but stored in a character field.

I could open each file and do Control F to find it, but I have several hundred dbf files to look through and numerous strings to look for.

Any suggestions????