Searching in Global

[Dbowie]

Hi

Sorry bit of a newbie question but is there a help page
where I can see how to use wildcards etc in Global.

I particularly want to know how I can only search for exact
matches only.

Thanks

[argosail]

looky here:

http://members.easynews.com/global4/somehelp.html

"A B"
This will search for A[[:space:]]B. This is how you would
want to do an exact phrase with the terms just having one
space between them.

[slack3r]

Post by argosail
http://members.easynews.com/global4/somehelp.html
"A B"
This will search for A[[:space:]]B. This is how you would
want to do an exact phrase with the terms just having one
space between them.
ABC*
This will search for ABC.* , meaning ABC followed by
nothing or anything(i.e. ABC, ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOP).
ABC?
This will search for ABC. , meaning ABC followed by any one
character(i.e. ABCD, ABCE).

Those are both incorrect. For ABC followed by nothing or
anything, just use "ABC", obviously. The second is also
wrong. I'd say what those actually search for, but I doubt
anyone cares. I just took a quick glance now. I'll look at it
again when I'm sober.

[slack3r]

Post by Dbowie
Hi
Sorry bit of a newbie question but is there a help page
where I can see how to use wildcards etc in Global.
I particularly want to know how I can only search for exact
matches only.
Thanks

My standard search string for matching exact words is:
"(\b|_)searchstring(\b|_)".