FileSeek RSS: feature request: find per line, and find not in file https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5 FileSeek RSS: feature request: find per line, and find not in file Fri, 01 May 2026 18:37:39 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5 RE: feature request: find per line, and find not in file https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5#8 Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:11:11 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5#8 FileSeek The only issue with whole-file processing is that you need to read the entire file into memory (which could be epic), and there are no progress indicators, it would look like FileSeek has frozen. :( If you had a file that was a few megs a regex could be crazy slow as well. ]]> RE: feature request: find per line, and find not in file https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5#7 Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:33:11 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5#7 FileSeek Would it be hard to add an option to process by line or whole file? This would allow regex searching for matches that do NOT exist in the file, which was my other question.

Or does this increase the processing of files exponentially or something massive? ]]> RE: feature request: find per line, and find not in file https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5#6 Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:25:06 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5#6 FileSeek Yes, the files are processed per-line, not the entire file at once. This limits what you can do with regex a little bit, but you should be able to find all the void strings matches. :) ]]> RE: feature request: find per line, and find not in file https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5#5 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:40:34 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5#5 FileSeek Thanks, that seems to work. Still trying to get my head around some regex stuff. Is the input "string" for the regex search per line? This is how it appears to work for me. ]]> RE: feature request: find per line, and find not in file https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5#4 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:36:32 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5#4 FileSeek Sorry, I misunderstood a little bit. You can definitely do this using a regex, here is what you would use:

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Make sure you select "Treat Query as Regular Expression" and you should be all set. :) ]]> RE: feature request: find per line, and find not in file https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5#3 Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:10:44 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5#3 FileSeek Thanks for your reply. I'm aware of the "match full string" option, but my first suggestion was matching each word per line. So you could read a query of "void string" per line as: Result is found when both "void" and "string" exist on the same line. They may or may not be next to each other, but both will exist somewhere on the same line. A result will not be found if "void" exists on a line but "string" does not, and similarly if "string" exists on a line but "void" does not. ]]> RE: feature request: find per line, and find not in file https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5#2 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:16:56 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5#2 FileSeek For your first question, just select "Match full string", then FileSeek will only match void string when the 2 words are beside each other. This should take care of that. As for your second request, this isn't possible in FileSeek right now, sorry. :( ]]> feature request: find per line, and find not in file https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5 Sat, 25 Sep 2010 03:09:17 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.fileseek.ca/Discussions/View/feature-request-find-per-line-and-find-not-in-file/?ID=0a85ac5a-6d8b-4de2-88cd-372bc8ee90b5 FileSeek Hi,

I'd like to make 2 suggestions. An option to find all query words that are on the same line. eg, I might wish to only find results using a query such as "void string". This would return all results where a void method contained a string parameter, assuming my coding layout had them on the same line. Lines such as "void foo(int x)" or "string bar()" wouldn't not be matched.

Secondly, I sometimes wish to find files that do NOT contain a certain query. You can probably do this with regular expressions, so perhaps I should brush up on this. I'm not sure how to achieve the first suggestion with regex, if possible.

Thanks for listening. ]]>