API for Desktop search

Hi ,

Can some one let me know if there is any API available for searching files which contain specific words in a particular directory?

My objective is to get the files that contain a string from a directory.In short it should work similar to the windows search which lets you search for files containing specific words

Is there any API available which lets me do this?

[394 byte] By [Bulusua] at [2007-10-3 0:46:56]