Treat file type as a zip archive for searching

[paul york]

Hi All,

Can anyone tell me if it’s possible for Notepad++ to treat specific file types as archive files so it can then search the files contained within the archive?

I have a number of files that I’d like to search for a specific reference however whilst they’re zip files their extension is .egg. Each .egg archive contains a set of xml definitions that I’d like to search for a specific reference. I could rename the .egg files themselves to a more standard .zip and extract the contents as a last resort but I’d like to avoid this if possible as there are quite a few to get through.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers,

Paul.

[dail]

It’s not possible and I don’t think any plugins exist that do that either. You are probably better off using tools specifically for searching compressed files.