FileSeek RSS: Unexpected behavior if search string contains double quotes (") https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=0972b692-86a6-486c-a812-667ebb0fb7bf FileSeek RSS: Unexpected behavior if search string contains double quotes (") Wed, 13 May 2026 16:39:55 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=0972b692-86a6-486c-a812-667ebb0fb7bf RE: Unexpected behavior if search string contains double quotes (") https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/unexpected-behavior-if-search-string-contains-double-quotes/?ID=0972b692-86a6-486c-a812-667ebb0fb7bf#4 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 20:16:25 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/unexpected-behavior-if-search-string-contains-double-quotes/?ID=0972b692-86a6-486c-a812-667ebb0fb7bf#4 FileSeek No worries, glad to hear it worked out! ]]> RE: Unexpected behavior if search string contains double quotes (") https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/unexpected-behavior-if-search-string-contains-double-quotes/?ID=0972b692-86a6-486c-a812-667ebb0fb7bf#3 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 15:37:00 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/unexpected-behavior-if-search-string-contains-double-quotes/?ID=0972b692-86a6-486c-a812-667ebb0fb7bf#3 FileSeek Hi Keith,

this helps indeed! I just realized that it's even documented in the FAQ... d'oh... ;-)

Thanks a lot for your help!

Best regards
Jutta ]]> RE: Unexpected behavior if search string contains double quotes (") https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/unexpected-behavior-if-search-string-contains-double-quotes/?ID=0972b692-86a6-486c-a812-667ebb0fb7bf#2 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:55:37 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/unexpected-behavior-if-search-string-contains-double-quotes/?ID=0972b692-86a6-486c-a812-667ebb0fb7bf#2 FileSeek Glad to hear you like FileSeek, thank you for the kind words!

Quotes are part of the query syntax, so if you want to search for them directly in the contents of files, you just need to escape them with a backslash. So, your query would be:

JAVA_PATH=\"$GENERAL_INSTALLDIR/java/jre\"

Hope that helps! ]]> Unexpected behavior if search string contains double quotes (") https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/unexpected-behavior-if-search-string-contains-double-quotes/?ID=0972b692-86a6-486c-a812-667ebb0fb7bf Fri, 14 Jun 2013 08:03:16 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/unexpected-behavior-if-search-string-contains-double-quotes/?ID=0972b692-86a6-486c-a812-667ebb0fb7bf FileSeek Hi,

I noticed that a search string that contains " leads to unexpected results (version 3.1).

This is my search string:

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JAVA_PATH="$GENERAL_INSTALLDIR/java/jre"


The search matches these two lines in a file:

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JAVA_PATH="$GENERAL_INSTALLDIR/java/jre"
JAVA_PATH="$ANOTHER_DIR/java_jre"


instead of matching just the first line. The highlighting of the first line shows that the embedded and ending " are not matched. The highlighting of the second line shows that only the part before the " (JAVA_PATH=) is matched - almost as if " is treated like | to separate several search strings.
Is this intended behavior - maybe an option I did not notice?

As a workaround, I checked the "Query is RegEx" option and masked the embedded $ with a backslash. This matches the first line including the double quotes correctly.

Thanks a lot for FileSeek - I use it daily for my work as a developer and it just works great!

Best regards
Jutta ]]>