Search text file contents for special character

Hey,

I'm trying to search the contents of some text files. The string I am searching for is SAP*. As you can probably guess when I type * I get everything that starts with the word SAP.

I tried using ~"SAP*", ~SAP"(*)" etc. but it continues to show me everything that starts with SAP. I can't use ~"*" because there are other entries that contain an *.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Loader

Hi,

Thanks, but this is not what I am after.

I am trying to search multiple .txt files using the Windows search feature. On XP you could just type SAP[*], but this doesn't work anymore.

EDIT: The text I want to search for is "SAP*", I don't want to return SAP1,SAP2 etc.. Only SAP*.

Hi,

No - I want to search the contents of multiple text files for text that includes *.

The following results are not correct:

SAP1
SAPabc
SAP23

The following result is correct:

SAP*

Something like: Search - Content:~"SAP(*)"

Hi,

But this will only search one text file, correct?

I have over 100 to search the contents of, this is why I am using the Windows Search feature.

You might try using File Locator Lite (free).
You can search for SAP* in the file contents, and the * is not used as a wildcard character.

FileLocator Lite - Free File Searching Utility

Excellent, this did the trick. Thank you very much David.