Introduction

## Searching - an Overview

Finding things in big bodies of source code can be difficult, tedious, and error prone.

Understand offers three approaches to finding things:

· In text file searching in the Editor (see String Searching)
· Project wide, entity only, searching using the Locator Window. This kind of search finds only Ada entities (not strings, or comments, or non syntatically declared or used items). See Locator Window - Find or Browse Entities
· Project wide, text searching using HyperGrep (see Using Hyper Grep to Find Things).

Each of these searching methods has advantages and disadvantages however, together they make a powerful way of easily finding what you need to find to better understand and modify your code.

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