search problem

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matt

I swear I'm going nuts.

I'm looking for a certain string (word) in a file that i
_know_ exists, so I put the string in the search's "A
Word or phrase in the file:" field, and the only thing
that comes back are files with the word in the file's
name.

For example: I put in:

[nothing] or *.* in the All or part of the file name:"

and

foo in the "A Word or phrase in the file:"

and I get back:

Foo.doc

rather than a listing of documents with the word "foo" in
it.

I'm searching subfolders, system folders, hidden
files/folders, and case sensitive is off.

any ideas?
 
What tool do you use to put your string into the file? Some
tools (e.g. notepad.exe) will put the string there as ASCII
code (so ABC becomes $41$42$43) whereas others make
it Unicode (so ABC becomes $41$00$42$00$43$00).

The search function will only detect ASCII strings. It
will fail on Unicode strings.
 
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