General usage
Type a search string in the Search field and press Enter key or click Search button to start searching.
Press ArrowUp key in the empty field to get a history of your previous search queries. Then select the one you need and press Enter key.
As you type, a pop-up window with proposals contains:
- history filtered basing on prefix you already typed,
- search string that you typed and
- list of most-frequently used terms in your model that have prefix you typed.
You can just press Enter key to search for the string you typed, use ArrowUp key to move to History elements or ArrowDown key to move
to most-frequent terms list.
Search query syntax
You can use "*" (asterisk) character for a sequence of any characters and "?" (question mark) for any single character. If you need to include "*" or "?" literally in your query, prepend them with "\" (backslash).
Search modes
By default the search reports elements containing the whole string you entered (taking into account "*" and "?" characters) in their name,
comment, code snippet etc. If you want to search for elements containing several words or phrases in e.g. different lines of code or even
either in name or in comment, it is possible to turn on "Search for separate phrases" option in Search preference page and then enter these
phrases separated by space into the Search field. In this mode items that match whole search query will be reported before items that contain
only separate phrases.
If you mostly do search for separate phrases, but occasionally want to perform "whole string match", you can enclose your query to double-quotes.
For more help consult with
Searching RSARTE models at
Rational Software Architect Wiki.