CQSearch does not seem to work with special characters

[prakashsanker]

I'm working on a java codebase. If I run

cqsearch -s myproject.db -t '*Mapping(' -f -u

this returns nothing.

If I run

cqsearch -s myproject.db -t '*Mapping' -f -u

it works.

How do I look for special characters?

Thanks!

[ruben2020]

Hi @prakashsanker ,
Brackets are not part of the symbol, so it cannot be searched by symbol search. The codequery GUI can search this by grep. But the cqsearch CLI currently doesn't support grep. It could potentially be a feature to add. But of course, you can use grep in the command line directly in Linux. You don't need cqsearch for that.