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Originally Posted by brenellic2000
I'm finding that it is very selective in reporting those files that contain the target word(s), correctly spelt, ignoring several files which I know for certain do!
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Originally Posted by kalee20
I seem to remember it couldn't understand WordPerfect 5.1 files, for instance, so didn't find the search text if it was in one of these files.
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It sounds like a file format issue. FIND will just search for text within a file - if it's got control codes and other data in the middle of the word then it won't find it, and the same goes if the word you're looking for appears after an EOF character (^Z).