String Literals

To use a string literal in an expression, use double quotes. i.e.: "<text>". For example:

findit -w 'extension = "jar"'

*Note:** String literals are case-sensitive. "jar" is not equal to "JAR". The expression language itself (keywords, properties, methods) is case-insensitive, but the string values you compare against are not.

Case-Insensitive String Comparison

To perform case-insensitive comparisons, convert strings to the same case first:

# Case-insensitive extension check
findit -w 'extension.toLower() = "jar"'

# Case-insensitive content search
findit -w 'content.toLower().contains("todo")'

Escape characters

findit double quoted string supports the following escapes:

• \\ -> \
• \" -> "
• \n -> new line
• \r -> carriage return
• \t -> tab
• \uXXXX where XXXX are 0-9A-F -> unicode character XXXX

For example:

findit -w 'content.contains("\u03B1")'

Will find all the files that contains the letter α.