Searching for text files

In this study, a new software for performing search in documents, called BELAR, is designed and implemented. In determining the properties of BELAR, the short comings observed in the other text editors? searching capabilities were taken into consideration. BELAR is developed for processing Word documents, and uses Microsoft Word program as a sub program; however, searching capabilities of BELAR are more comprehensive than that of Microsoft Word. Three different measures are used for searching text fragments in BELAR. These are sentence, paragraph and context. Here, the context measure is in terms of number of sentences and this number can be specified by the user. Searching is performed in the whole document using regular expression keys according to the searching measure and the results found are listed. It is possible later to reach the location of the results in the document, selected from the list.