User Guide

178 Chapter 12 Testing and Maintaining Web Pages
• In project Replaces text in the documents of a project. You can select a
project from the drop-down box, enter the absolute path of a project, or
browse to a project.
If you want to limit your search and replace operation to files of certain types,
select a filter from the File Types drop-down box or enter your own; for
example, *.html;*.htm;*.txt.
4 Select any of the following options as needed:
• Match case Only highlights a match if it has identical uppercase and
lowercase as the selection.
• Regular expressions Enables parsing of regular expression entries.
For information on the specific syntax to use for regular expressions in
HomeSite+ for Dreamweaver MX, see “Using regular expressions” on page
107.
• Skip tags while searching Searches only the page content, not the tags
themselves—especially useful when searching for words like width or value.
This option is not available when Regular expressions is selected.
• Exclude Binary Files Skips over binary files such as EXE, PDF, ZIP, and
media file types. Searching these types of files would significantly slow down
the search. HomeSite+ for Dreamweaver MX installs a list of excluded file
extensions in the Windows Registry LinkVerifyExcludeExts key.
• Display Line Info Displays the contents of the line in which the match was
found. This slows down the performance in large searches.
• Make backups Select this for folder and project replace operations, because
an extended replace cannot be undone. Backs up every file in the folder or
project before performing the extended replace operation.
If you select this option, you must specify one of these backup locations:
Backup directory Backs up in the \AutoBackup folder in the program root;
for example, C:\Program Files\Macromedia\HomeSite+\AutoBackup.
Original directory Backs up in the current directory. You can differentiate
these files from your regular files by their name, since backed up files use the
following naming convention: filename + an incremented 3 digit number + the
file extension; for example, myfile000.htm.
For information about how HomeSite+ for Dreamweaver MX determines the
current directory with two Files tabs, see “About the Files tabs” on page 42.
5Click Replace.
6 To cancel the search and replace operation, press the Esc key.
Working with the results of extended search operations
The Results window displays a list of documents in which text was replaced.
After an extended search, the Results window displays a list of documents in which
the search string was found and/or replaced. You can work with these search results