Does anyone know of a program that can search a certain folder and look inside each one automatically for a certain code I would put in the search query.
So for example if there were 5 text files, and I was looking for a particular code that is only located in one of the files. I would enter it in, and it would return back the result in where it is located.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.

notepad++ (http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm) works perfectly.

Is this windows or linux?

grep -r [term] *

Crimson Editor and Netbeans, and NuSphere PhpEd can all do this.

thank you so much guys, crimson editor did the trick for me nice and easy. appreciate all the help.

PhpEd won't search subdirectories, only the directory you specify... that is really annoying.

I use Notepad++ or PhpED on windows at work, and Geany on Linux at home. All of them have this functionality.

Good idea with grep -- awesome tool. :)
-mike