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Find in Columns does not work properly

Mic — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:15:41 GMT

Hi,
I like your app very much. It is one of the best logviewers I know. I often use the "Find in Columns" filter, but unfortunately it has a not so nice flaw. It does search in the column alone but also highlights the search term in other columns as well. This is somewhat confusing if you have a lot of highlights in your logview then. I.e. filtering for 25 in the column "Thread" also highlights all 25s from the "Date" column, as we are in 2025 now :)
Is there a way to avoid the highlighting for these other columns?

best
Mic

RE: Find in Columns does not work properly

Mic — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:15:41 GMT

Hi Toby,
no worries. Meanwhile I found a solution. If you check on Regular Expression and wrap your search in ^ and $ it works.Then it only matches the search term in the selected column.
So if I want to search i.e. for "12" in Column "Thread", i choose "Find in Column", use the term "^12$" and check as regular expression.

But a shortcut for this would be fine, as I often need to use this kind of search to filter log entries of a huge multi threading software.

Kind regards
Mic

RE: Find in Columns does not work properly

LogViewPlus Support — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:31:24 GMT

Hi Mic,

Glad to hear you are finding LogViewPlus helpful. :)

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you. This message was incorrectly flagged as spam in our forum software. This could be because your user name overlaps with a known spam account. You can change this in Your Profile -> Edit Account.

It's a good point about hightlights when using the Find in Column feature. I think we could add an additional setting to make this hightlight creation optional.

In the meantime, I would suggest removing the highlight after creation.

Hope that helps,

Toby