Find content using dataview

[EllenMad]

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What I’m trying to do

find a md file with content xxx in the file

Things I have tried

I type this in the source view

LIST FROM "" 
WHERE contains(file.content, "xxx")

xxx is the content. I am searching the entire vault. XXX exists in an md file.

I have been looking on the web and in the community. My code seems right. I think I should find a list of files in the reading view. What do I have wrong?

I also tried this, but it does not work.

LIST
FROM ""
WHERE contains(file.content, "#yyy") OR contains(file.content, "#xxx")

[holroy]

What kind of a tag do you want to find? Just a random text? Or an actual tag like #thisTag.

Dataview don’t know anything called file.content by default. You could define a property (or field) with that name, but it wouldn’t contain the entire content of the file in either case.

If you want a general text search in all files you could look into doing embedded search queries, which would allow searches like those in the search panel.

[EllenMad]

I got my solution from AI. Not trustworthy.

I should be able to pull up the tags.
LIST
FROM “”
WHERE this.file.#xxx

xxx is a specific tag in my vault.

[Montblanc]

If you’re just looking for a list of notes with the tag #xxx, the query would be:

```dataview
LIST
FROM #xxx
```