# GSoC 2019 - File Search (Final Report)

DevFeed: [GSoC 2019 - File Search (Final Report)](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/gsoc-2019-file-search-final-report-32805.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://reactos.org/blogs/gsoc-2019-file-search-final-report/>)

Published: 2019-08-26T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Front Page on ReactOS Website](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/front-page-on-reactos-website.md>)

Topics: [like](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/like.md>), [ReactOS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reactos.md>), [file](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/file.md>), [Windows](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/windows.md>), [GUI](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/gui.md>), [Regular expression](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/regular-expression.md>)

Tags: [file](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/file.md>), [free](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/free.md>), [gsoc](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gsoc.md>), [keyboard](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/keyboard.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [os](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/os.md>), [react](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/react.md>), [reactos](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/reactos.md>), [regular-expressions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/regular-expressions.md>), [report](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/report.md>), [text](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/text.md>), [win32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/win32.md>), [winapi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/winapi.md>), [windows](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/windows.md>)

## AI overview

The article reports completed work on ReactOS's file search project, including a Start menu or keyboard shortcut launch, case-insensitive recursive searching, UTF-16 text-file support, and wildcard file-name filtering. It also notes possible future support for case-sensitive search and regular expressions.

## Source excerpt

This is a summary of all the work that has been completed this summer on the file search project. All contributed code can be found in this GitHub pull request. Summary Here is a list of the main features: Quickly open it from the Start menu or with the keyboard shortcut Windows + F Search is case-insensitive and recurses all sub-folders Support for UTF-16 encoded text files File name filtering with support for wildcards "