def find_files_with_substring()

in olddocs/gen_edot_col_components/tools.py [0:0]

• 13 lines of code
• 8 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def find_files_with_substring(directory, substring):
    matching_files = []
    # Compile the substring into a regular expression for case-insensitive search
    pattern = re.compile(re.escape(substring), re.IGNORECASE)
    # Use pathlib to iterate over all files in the directory and subdirectories
    for file_path in Path(directory).rglob('*'):
        if file_path.is_file():
            try:
                with open(file_path, 'r', encoding='utf-8') as file:
                    content = file.read()
                    if pattern.search(content):
                        matching_files.append(str(file_path))
            except (UnicodeDecodeError, PermissionError) as e:
                # Skip files that can't be read due to encoding issues or permission errors
                print(f"Skipping {file_path}: {e}")
    return matching_files