Unable to search the following file formats

[assifiqbal68]

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Hi,

Here's the following list of file formats that we cannot do a code search (through advanced search option)
Please let us know if there are other options to perform a search on these formats.

.ldr
.fmb/.fmx
.wft/.wfd
.pll
.rdf
.oap
.xss

Thanks
Assif

[queenofcorgis]

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[look]

@assifiqbal68 I'm not familiar with these extensions, are they binary files perhaps? Can you give some more details about the kind of searches you're trying to perform and what you expect to be returned? Thanks!

[assifiqbal68]

@look Thanks for your response.
Yes, we are expecting a matching string to be returned from those files just like the way we used to search text on .xml, .java files ,etc...
.fmb : Oracle form based files.
.pll : Library in binary format
.wft : Data files
.oap : OutSystems Application Package

[look]

Thank you for the details. At this time, large files, binary files, and files with non-UTF-8 characters are excluded from the code search index (see the details on what's excluded. I am guessing that's what is happening here.

[assifiqbal68]

ok, thanks @look

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