Marlyse Comte said like this: >you are absolutely right - this DOES work. Now I only end up with >results which include the full expression. I was not aware of this >search option (shows how often I use search in my mail, like 2x a year).
It only *seems to* work... ie, it works in this circumstance for you but may not work with other patterns for someone else. As far as I have understood the search index is wordbased and does not see "23.59" as such but as "23 59". "The "." is dropped and thus not considered its own entity but equal to " " or even "" (this is the same for number of other meaningful characters). This means those two patterns will be regarded as exactly the same, even though they convey different meaning for us humans. In this case, it doesn't matter, but in other ones it does matter. Consider "[mailing list]" in the subject for instance. This pattern will find both "mailing list" as well as "[mailing list]". The first is hardly what the user intended to try and find. PM 5.2.3 Swedish | OS X 10.4.5 | Powerbook G4/400Mhz | 1GB RAM | 30GB HD
