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Some time ago I've written a search routine which allows searching inside of Notebooks using string patterns:

• Searching a phrase in all *.nb files

Other solutions from that thread can also be of interest for you.

Alternatively you can program your own search routine on the base of one of the following functions:

• Import[nbFilePath, "Plaintext"]

• NotebookImport[nb, _ ->"InputText"]

• First[FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`ExportPacket[nb, "PlainText"]]]

You can find additional information on their usage in the following threads:

• Programmatically convert notebook input cells to text file

• How to convert arbitrary raw boxes directly into String?

Note however that at least Import[nbFilePath, "Plaintext"] is based on "NBImport.exe" which has long-standing bug in importing files with non-ASCII filepaths.

Some time ago I've written a search routine which allows searching inside of Notebooks using string patterns:

• Searching a phrase in all *.nb files

Other solutions from that thread can also be of interest for you.

Alternatively you can program your own search routine on the base of one of the following functions:

• Import[nbFilePath, "Plaintext"]

• NotebookImport[nb, _ ->"InputText"]

• First[FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`ExportPacket[nb, "PlainText"]]]

You can find additional information on their usage in the following threads:

• Programmatically convert notebook input cells to text file

• How to convert arbitrary raw boxes directly into String?

Note however that Import[nbFilePath, "Plaintext"] is based on "NBImport.exe" which has long-standing bug in importing files with non-ASCII filepaths.

You can program your own search routine on the base of one of the following functions:

• Import[nbFilePath, "Plaintext"]

• NotebookImport[nb, _ ->"InputText"]

• First[FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`ExportPacket[nb, "PlainText"]]]

You can find additional information on their usage in the following threads:

• Programmatically convert notebook input cells to text file

• How to convert arbitrary raw boxes directly into String?

Note however that at least Import[nbFilePath, "Plaintext"] is based on "NBImport.exe" which has long-standing bug in importing files with non-ASCII filepaths.

Some time ago I've written a search routine which allows searching inside of Notebooks using string patterns:

• Searching a phrase in all *.nb files

Other solutions from that thread can also be of interest for you.

Alternatively you can program your own search routine on the base of one of the following functions:

• Import[nbFilePath, "Plaintext"]

• NotebookImport[nb, _ ->"InputText"]

• First[FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`ExportPacket[nb, "PlainText"]]]

You can find additional information on their usage in the following threads:

• Programmatically convert notebook input cells to text file

• How to convert arbitrary raw boxes directly into String?

Note however that at least Import[nbFilePath, "Plaintext"] is based on "NBImport.exe" which has long-standing bug in importing files with non-ASCII filepaths.

You can program your own search routine on the base of one of the following functions:

• Import[nbFilePath, "Plaintext"]

• NotebookImport[nbFilePath, "Input"->"InputText"]

• First[FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`ExportPacket[nb, "PlainText"]]]

You can find additional information on their usage in the following threads:

• Programmatically convert notebook input cells to text file

• How to convert arbitrary raw boxes directly into String?

Note however that at least Import[nb, "Plaintext"] is based on "NBImport.exe" which has long-standing bug in importing files with non-ASCII filepaths.

You can program your own search routine on the base of one of the following functions:

• Import[nbFilePath, "Plaintext"]

• NotebookImport[nb, _ ->"InputText"]

• First[FrontEndExecute[FrontEnd`ExportPacket[nb, "PlainText"]]]

You can find additional information on their usage in the following threads:

• Programmatically convert notebook input cells to text file

• How to convert arbitrary raw boxes directly into String?

Note however that at least Import[nbFilePath, "Plaintext"] is based on "NBImport.exe" which has long-standing bug in importing files with non-ASCII filepaths.