How can I get Dreamweaver to search Perl files?

Question

I use Dreamweaver as my editor of choice for web development, and often find old projects have a few Perl files.

For some reson the Dreamweaver find and replace dialog does not seem to recognise these Perl files e.g. .pl or .cgi as searchable files, so when I use the "find in folder" on a folder I know contains only Perl files it returns "Not found in 0 documents" and doesn't appear to search them.

How can I get dreamweaver to search these files?

Thanks,

Tom

Answer 1

There's a Dreamweaver Extension which adds perl "support" -- syntax colouring for example. I don't know if searchability is included in that support, but it's what I'd try first. Dreamweaver would at least recognise PL and CGI files as files it can edit from then on.