Retrieving Files Using Content Based Search

ABSTRACT Content Based File Search is a Java application to find files that contain (or don’t contain) a given string. The string may be in plain text or it may be a Java regular expression. Such a trivial search should be part of the operating system, and in fact, once was. As bigger and more impressive features were added to Windows, it lost the ability to search files for arbitrary bytes of text. Windows 98/ME/2000 could find words buried in files with unknown formats; Windows XP and Vista search only their supported file types. Through the creation of files of content through applications,…