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dmahling 01-03-2008 11:43 AM

wildcard searches
 
I am looking for items that contain the string "*".
So I use advanced search:

(Item) "matches wildcard"[*]

but eventhough there are items containing * and **, none show up. What am I doing wrong?

ashwken 01-03-2008 11:57 AM

Try the search against the (Item Text) attribute and this change.


(Item Text) "matches wildcard" *[*]

dmahling 01-03-2008 12:06 PM

not *[*] nor [*]* nor *[*]* works
 
thanks for the reply. I tried all these different ways. Nothing.
Even [?] which should find a single question mark in items and their attributes returns the empty search set.

ashwken 01-03-2008 12:20 PM

1 Attachment(s)
uhmm...

I created two text Items, each of which contains the following text string in the Detail Pane of the Item:

This file contains *

and

This file contains **

both Items were returned in the Search Results, see screen shot:

dmahling 01-03-2008 12:32 PM

YES -> ItemText
 
Thanks Ashwken!
They key is to pick the ItemText field. If you pick (Item) it wont do it.

kinook 01-03-2008 12:33 PM

To search for items whose text contains a *, use

Item Text matches wildcard *[*]*

Note that Item Text, not (Item), must be specified to perform an extended phrase search (since * is not a keyworded symbol).
http://www.kinook.com/UR/Manual/phrasesearch.htm
[*] will only match on text exactly equal to *
*[*] will only match on text ending with *
http://www.kinook.com/UR/Manual/matcheswildcard.htm

ashwken 01-03-2008 12:45 PM

Kinook,

Thanks for the clarification, this is helpful.


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