Google Code Search

You would have missed a huge repository of software code for reference as a

developer, when it was elusive to find the right way to code something or use a

statement.

The reason for this is that either such repositories are targeted at a

specific and narrow problem in programming domain or the code for it is not

publicly available.

Applies To:All developers  USP: Find information related to programming and code statements on Google Primary Link: www.google.com/codesearch Google Keywords: code search

It is also difficult to search within the code, given that we have so many

alternative ways to write a statement and provide arguments to function calls.

Google has come up with a brilliant innovation to solve this problem. The latest

addition to Google Search by their labs, Google Code Search, allows you to

search for almost anything if it is related to coding. Be it any function or

method, or usage example of a component, or even a programming term being used

in any common language; ask Google code search and you will not be disappointed.

It not only makes life easy for a problem-stuck developer, but it is also

helpful in avoiding patent rights and IPR infringement across the developer

community. This is because you can easily find out whether the piece of code you

intend to use in your application is patented or IPR constrained.



We searched for almost all the common terms and even specific code lines in
various programming languages and it was not tough to find, whether it was Java,

VB, Perl, C or even Unix shell scripts. Everything is a no hassle search with

quick results.

Search results are shown in neatly formatted bands, with filename, line number in the file and license if available

And after you refine the initial search results, it even allows you to narrow

down on a specific item of interest. The search engine even allows you to use

regular expressions for specifying the language, type of license, package names

and even type of files. So for searches related to code, go no further than

this.

Google Advanced Code Search lets you search by license type and package name, fields that are not commonly searchable by other means

Anadi Misra