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Incremental Search
You can use the incremental search option to quickly find a short series of characters. To start
an incremental search, choose Search | Incremental Search from the main menu or press
Ctrl+E on the keyboard. To understand how the incremental search works, it is easiest to do
an exercise. Do the following:
1. Create a new text file from the Object Repository. (It doesn’t matter whether you
currently have a project open.)
2. Type the following text:
Learning to write Windows
programs a bit at a time
is not so bad. Isn’t it
time you got back to work?
3. Move the cursor back to the top of the file (Ctrl+Home).
4. Press Ctrl+E to start the incremental search. You will be searching for the word
back. Note that the Code Editor status bar says Searching for:.
5. Type a b on the keyboard. The letter b in the word bit is highlighted. Hmmm…
that’s not what you are looking for.
6. Now type an a on the keyboard. The next occurrence of ba is found, this time in
the word bad. That’s still not what you are looking for.
7. Type a c on the keyboard. The letters bac in the word back are highlighted. Now
type a k. The Code Editor status bar now says Searching for: back and the word
back is highlighted. Congratulations, you found what you were looking for!
8. Press Esc (or Enter) on the keyboard to stop the incremental search. Close the text
file without saving it.
That’s all there is to it. The incremental search is handy when you’re searching for short
amounts of text.
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If you make a mistake when typing in the characters while doing an
incremental search, you can use the Backspace key to remove the last
character typed from the search string.
Finding Matching Braces
As you have seen, C++ code can often get pretty convoluted when you start nesting if
statements, if-else pairs, and so on. To tell the truth, it’s easy to get lost. The Code Editor
has a feature to help you find a brace that matches the brace the cursor is currently on. To