Searching through .fla files

Usually when I am looking for a specific field name, section of code or variable, I will run a GREP regex search to search through my ASP files, which works great as they are just stored as plain text, however I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to do the same with ".fla" files.
The GREP search looks through all my files in one go and returns a list of files which match the search terms; but wouldn't work on .fla files as the actionscript is not stored as plain text. Possibly this would work if I converted all my ".fla"s to use seperate ".as" files but this would be a lot of work and I'd rather avoid it if possible.
Thanks for any help you can give.

Select the stage window, then select Search and Replace from the Edit menu. This search tool works pretty well. If you search when an Actionscript window is selected you will only be able to search that one frame of AS.

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Jalk67 wrote:
> I have searched archived messages and although there
have been posts about
> this, no one seemed to have any answers. So, I thought I
would ask again. Oh,
> and please don't laugh!
>
> My company had a web site built back in 1998-1999. The
outside person they
> hired to do the site created a Flash animation. I do not
know what version was
> used or for sure what platform (PC or Mac). I do have
the .fla files as well as
> the .swf files to work with, but when I try to open them
I get this error
> message.
>
> "This document contains embedded objects that were
created with Microsoft
> Windows version of Flash. These embedded objects must be
deleted before opening
> on a Macintosh."
>
> I am trying to open the .fla files using an old Mac
version of Flash 4. (Yes,
> I said please don't laugh!) My company will not allow
the resources to buy an
> upgraded version. Can anyone tell me why I am getting
this message? How I can
> open these files? or ANYTHING I can do? Thanks for the
help.
>

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