Simple Patterns
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Search patterns can be constructed as any string of alphabetic
characters,
numeric characters and the hyphen
(aka minus sign).
For example,
bear, 196, 12th,
and
no-one
are all legitimate search patterns.
The case
(upper or lower)
of the search pattern or searched page text is not significant.
For example,
the search pattern
Fred
matches
Fred, Alfredo, FRED, fred,
....
If the word being searched for has variants,
it may be best to search for a subset of the word;
for example,
grizz
would find
grizzly
and
grizzlies.
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Match Case
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Checking the
Match Case
box makes the case of characters in the search pattern and the searched
page text significant.
For example,
the pattern
Fred
would match
Frederica
but not
Alfred
if case matching is specified.
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Match Word
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Checking the
Match Word
box will cause matching of complete words only.
For example,
the pattern
fred
would match
Fred
but not
Alfredo
or
Frederica
if word matching is specified.
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Match Case and Word
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Checking both the
Match Case
and
Match Word
boxes does what one should expect,
based on the discussion of the two cases above.
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Multi-word Patterns
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If the search pattern is entered as words separated by a space,
a match occurs only if the two words appear consecutively in the
searched page text.
For example,
the pattern
black bear
would not match
black grizzly bear*.
Warning:
A pattern with blanks will not match page text if there are intervening
alphabetic or numeric characters.
Thus,
blackish bear
and
black conibear
would
not
be a match for our example pattern.
However,
jet-black bears
would be a match
(unless the
Match Word
box is checked),
since the additional characters do not intervene.
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Oldest First
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Searches are normally in
(approximately)
reverse chronological order.
That is,
pages representing recent information tend to appear first.
Checking the
Oldest First
box causes the search to favor pages
representing older information.
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