Simple Patterns |
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. |
Match Case |
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. |
Match Word |
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. |
Match Case and Word |
Checking both the Match Case and Match Word boxes does what one should expect, based on the discussion of the two cases above. |
Multi-word Patterns |
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*.
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Oldest First |
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. |