[dba-Tech] Windows XP Search

It doesn't matter what format the asp files are, index engines will
generally only search within files that have certain extensions - I
assume .asp isn't on their lists by default, although I imagine a number
of them would be configurable.

Most editors, such as Dreamweaver, Visual Studio etc, will definitely
search within project files such as asp etc.  

What editor are you using?

Cheers,
Andrew

 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
Sent: Tuesday, 29 March 2005 11:04 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows XP Search

Dear Group,

Had an odd thing happen today. I've been working on learning ASP to help
out a client of mine. She wants a few small customizations to this huge
application -- just under 800 ASP pages.

I wanted to determine which of the ASP pages contained a reference to a
field in one of her SQL Server tables; so I thought I'd use good old
Windows XP Search to find the word "editoremail" in any of the ASP
files. The files are in a folder under C:\Inetpub\wwwroot on my
workstation. I've got IIS and SQL Server installed on it.

Anyway, I know for a fact that that field name is contained in two of
the ASP files in one particular folder. I set Windows Search going...but
it returned only ONE file, and it wasn't even one of the two I knew
about. I couldn't figure out why Search would not find that field name.
I even tried searching for "editormail" including the quotes since
that's how it appears when it's referenced in the ASP
code:

HoldCC = rse("EditorEmail")

I tried using proper capitalization of the word, too. No dice. Search
came back with a completely different ASP file. It's funny, too, because
the file it found is in the same folder as the other two ASP files.

So I thought I'd try Yahoo Desktop Search. I installed it and waited the
half hour or so it took to index my files. But then I found out that it
doesn't do full text searches! It just looks for file names.
Uninstalled that puppy.

Then I tried Google Desktop Search. That claims to be full text. Well,
after it indexed everything, it didn't find a single instance of that
field name either! Uninstalled it.

What's going on here? Any ideas? I mean, ASP files are just plain old
text. I'm baffled.


--
Regards,

Steve Erbach
Scientific Marketing
Neenah, WI
http://www.swerbach.com
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