Searching for multiple words using TextPad

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user1670593 picture user1670593 · Sep 14, 2012 · Viewed 10.3k times · Source

I need to find a list of files that contain 2 different words. For example, I need to search for a list of files from a folder that contain the word "Balloon" and then from the result, need to search for files that contain the word "burst".

Is it possible to do this using Textpad?

Answer

LeonardChallis picture LeonardChallis · Sep 19, 2012

Edited answer because I see what you want is, in effect, to find any file with both balloon and burst in. You can simply use balloon.*burst (or balloon.+burst if you don't want to match balloonburst in the file):

TextPad Find with Regex

Don't forget to search In all documents - and my advice would be to hit Mark All to show the results. Bearing in mind you'd need to open these files in TextPad first.

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