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Easily find specific code usages in PhpStorm without regex

Very handy to know

Joel Clermont
Joel Clermont
2025-10-10

Regexes in search logic are powerful, but sometimes they end up being fancier than we actually need to get the job done.

In today's video, I demonstrate how to quickly do a "search within a search" using PHPStorm.

This feature is pretty well hidden, but I find myself using it all the time now that I know it is there.

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Here to help,

Joel

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