Windows 10: Searching within text files for a phrase with special characters?

Discus and support Searching within text files for a phrase with special characters? in Windows 10 Gaming to solve the problem; I have hundreds of plain text files chat logs, to be specific, and I need to find instances of a phrase explicitly in SQUARE BRACKETS e.g. [Phrase... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Gaming' started by QuillAndSaber, Apr 21, 2022.

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    Searching within text files for a phrase with special characters?


    I have hundreds of plain text files chat logs, to be specific, and I need to find instances of a phrase explicitly in SQUARE BRACKETS e.g. [Phrase Here]. The phrase in question appears very often without the brackets, so trying to manually sort through File Explorer search results for "Phrase Here" isn't going to work. How do I do this? Searching for "[Phrase Here]" didn't work and turned up a lot of files that did not contain even "Phrase Here".

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    QuillAndSaber, Apr 21, 2022
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