## Searching - an Overview

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

Understand for C++ offers three solutions for finding things:

- Single file searching in the Editor. See Searching Source Code.
- Project wide, entity only, searching using the Locator Window. This kind of search finds only entities (not strings, or comments, or non-syntactically declared or used items). See Locator Window - Find or Browse Entities.
- Project wide, text-based searching using Find in Files. See Using Find in Files.

Each of these searching methods has advantages and disadvantages. Together they provide powerful ways to easily find what you need to find to better understand and modify your code.

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