How to search in resource files in Eclipse? (escaped chars)

How do you search in resource files (*.properties) in Eclipse for string containing non-ASCII characters?

EDIT: Currently I use * in place of those special chars, but I'd prefer Ecli开发者_高级运维pse to handle this for me: so it would either search for '\u00E1' in raw files when I enter 'á', or it might translate the files first and then just search for 'á'.

My apologize for not being specific enough when asking.

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In Eclipse, you can use Search -> File Search . In the Search dialog, check the Regular expression option. Then enter this pattern in the Containing text: field to find non-ASCII characters:

[\u007f-\uffff]

(the square brackets are part of the pattern). Enter the File name patterns

*.properties

and then select which resources to search (selected resource, workspace, working set, etc.) and click OK

See also the Pattern javadoc for how to express such regular expressions.

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Personally, I search them from the command line using grep, but you can search them in Eclipse by using a question mark in a non-regular-expression search, which should match any character. You can also use a period in a regular expression search.

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The search dialog allows you to search for strings in *.resources files in the workspace.

Go to Search -> File. Enable the Regular Expressions checkbox - this also content assist to choose the regular expression according to your needs. In the file name patterns, give *.properties and then, Go :)