- Qt Creator Documentation
- View search results
- Qt Creator 20.0.0

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# View search results

Use the Search Results view to search through projects, files on a file system, or the currently open files, and view search results.

## Define a search scope

The search scope determines where Qt Creator searches for the search string:

- All Projects searches in all projects.
- Single Project searches in the selected project.
- Files in All Project Directories recursively searches in all project directories.
- Files in File System recursively searches in the selected directory.
- Current File searches only from the current file.
- Open Documents searches in all open files.

In File pattern and Exclusion pattern, specify file patterns to further restrict the search scope.

## Define search criteria

The search criteria determine how Qt Creator matches the search string with text and which results it shows:

- To consider case, select Case sensitive.
- To search only whole words, select Whole words only.
- To search using regular expressions, select Use regular expressions.
- To exclude binary files from the search results, select Ignore binary files.
- To exclude generated files from the search results, select Ignore generated files.

## View the search results

After you select Search or Search & Replace, the view shows a list of files that have search hits.

To show search hits in the editor:

- To see all occurrences in a file, double-click the file name in the list.
- To go to an occurrence, double-click it.

To repeat the search after you have made changes to the listed files, for example, select Search Again.

## Use the Search Results view toolbar

The toolbar contains options for searching again and navigating search results:

- To clear the search results, select (Clear).
- To move between instances, select (Next Item) and (Previous Item).
- To expand and collapse the search results, select (Expand All).
- To filter the search results for the usage of symbols according to access type, such as read, write, or declaration, select (Filter Tree).
- To start a new search, select (New Search).
- If the active project has long paths, select ../ (Show Paths in Relation to Active Project) to show relative paths.
- To show the results of earlier searches, select them in History.

See also View output and How to: Search.