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Zoekt: Fast Trigram-Based Code Search Engine for Source Code

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cv_h

5mo ago· 3 min readenCode

Summary

Zoekt is a trigram-based text search engine designed specifically for source code, offering fast substring and regexp matching with a rich query language including boolean operators. It can search individual repositories or across large codebases, ranking results using code-related signals. The project was forked from Google's original repository in 2017 and is now maintained by SourceGraph.

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Zoekt is a text search engine intended for use with source code.
Zoekt supports fast substring and regexp matching on source code, with a rich query language that includes boolean operators (and, or, not).
It can search individual repositories, and search across many repositories in a large codebase.
Zoekt ranks search results using a combination of code-related signals.
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Fast trigram based code search . Contribute to sourcegraph/zoekt development by creating an account on GitHub.

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