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= Search =

[[Image(source:trunk/images/dialogs/search.png,middle)]] ''Keyboard shortcut'': '''{{{Ctrl+F}}}'''

'''Search [wiki:/Help/Concepts/Object objects] in the current data layer'''

Some examples of queries:

* `type:way` selects all ways
* `name:Herrengasse` selects all elements with the given name
* `type:way name:-` selects all ways that do not have a name
* `id:123465678` selects an object (way or node) with a particular id

There is also a very under-used and under-documented feature that lets you enter a web URL (`file://`, `http://`, `https://`, `ftp://`) 
in the search field. JOSM will then attempt to load that URL, and select any objects that it finds referenced in that file. JOSM will 
look for XML tags "way", "node", and "relation" in the document, and use their id attribute. This means you can 
access another OSM file on your hard disk this way and have JOSM select all objects that are present in the file (provided they are present in JOSM's dataset too).

The special expressions `selected` and `modified` select all currently selected resp. all objects modified in the current session.

More examples are [osmwiki:JOSM_search_function here]

=== [ExpertMode Expert Mode] ===#ExpertMode
Some examples are only shown in [wiki:Help/ExpertMode expert mode].


== Regular Expressions ==
JOSM supports Java Regex. For detailed Information see http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html


== See also ==
* [wiki:/Help/Concepts/Object Objects]

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