Samurai Search vs FindText

Search your iOS device or iCloud for text, source code, plain text files, and PDFs. Find matches inside files and preview results instantly, or open any matched file in your favourite editing or viewing app. Flexible search options: whole word, case sensitive (all file types), and regular expressions (for text files). Choose which files to include by selecting standard or custom text file types, or by searching filenames that match a pattern. Select where to search from On My iPad, iCloud Drive, or external file providers such as SMB and USB folders. When possible, the app retains saved search selections so you can quickly repeat the same searches later. If you search selected folders in iCloud Drive, matching iCloud files are synced to your device before searching, ensuring fast local results. Searching plain text files is extremely fast and memory efficient. PDF search speed depends on the document content and can be slow. Note also that PDF search may consume large amounts of memory which can cause Samurai Search to crash.

Find and replace text: 1. Enter or Paste your text from the clipboard into the TextView 2. You can choose Find or Replace function 3. Enter the word or phrase you want to replace in Find what. 4. Enter your new text in Replace with. 5. Replace All to change all occurrences of the word or phrase. To specify only upper or lowercase in your search, select Matching Case or Ignoring Case. For advanced users, we've also added the ability to find patterns using a regular expression. Click the Search button in the search field to see the basic regular expressions or enter the regular expression that you want to replace in Find what.