Introduction to file searching applications

In file managers, file searching is used to find files with specific names. In IDEs, file searching is used to find program files with specific code text.

In this topic, we'll develop the first example in order to find a file named f211.txt. The folder structure is shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 13

This folder structure can be represented as a tree, as shown in the following diagram; the file that we're trying to find is shown with a green border:

Figure 14

Let's go ahead and look at how ...

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