topic Re: Windows won't search keywords in .sas files even after updating registry in SAS Programming

Windows won't search keywords in .sas files even after updating registry

appleorange — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 19:56:20 GMT

For the longest time, windows did work in searching within .sas files for keywords but after some updates - this randomly stopped working and no matter what I've tried, it still won't.

1. I already had the persistenthandler value updated in this thread.

I can't think of anything else, but if anyone has any other suggestions or has run into this problem recently.

Re: Windows won't search keywords in .sas files even after updating registry

ChrisNZ — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 01:25:58 GMT

In my experience, Windows search has always been broken, and the advent of AQS with W7 made this worse.

Just write a small SAS program to scan your paths and be done with it.

Re: Windows won't search keywords in .sas files even after updating registry

FreelanceReinh — Thu, 05 Nov 2020 08:56:54 GMT

Hi @appleorange,

I frequently use FINDSTR from the command line (cmd.exe) to search keywords and phrases in .sas files. If that didn't work I would probably turn to the "Find/replace in files" feature of my text editor, but I wouldn't even think of using the Windows file search.