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Option Description
R Interpret search string as a SlickEdit® regular ex-
pression.
U Interpret search string as UNIX regular expression.
B Interpret string as a Brief regular expression.
N Do not interpret search string as a regular expres-
sion.
P Wrap to beginning/end when string not found.
W Limit search to words. Used to search for variables.
W=SlickEdit-regular-expression Specifies the valid characters in a word. The default
value is [A-Za-z0-9_$]. To change the word charac-
ters for a specific extension, from the main menu
click Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit
and click General in the tree, then double-click the
File Extension Setup setting. Select your exten-
sion from the Extension drop-down list, then select
the Advanced Tab.
W:P Limit search to word prefix. For example, a search
for “pre” matches “pre” and “prefix” but not
“supreme” or “supre”.
W:PS Limit search to strict word prefix. For example, a
search for “pre” matches “prefix” but not “pre,”
“supreme” or “supre”.
W:S Limit search to word suffix. For example, a search
for “fix” matches “fix” and “suffix” but not “fixit”.
W:SS Limit search to strict word suffix. For example, a
search for “fix” matches “suffix” but not “fix” or “fixit”.
H Allow finding search string in hidden lines.
Y Binary search. This allows start positions in the
middle of a DBCS or UTF-8 character. This option
is useful when editing binary files (in SBCS/DBCS
mode) which may contain characters which look like
DBCS but are not. For example, if you search for
the character “a”, it will not be found as the second
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