Hello Bill, >>> If you look for A&B you are actually looking for AB. > >> At least I think so <g> > > I couldn't get it to work as a concatenation operator. I sent an > email to myself and filtered for a sender of "bill mc&carthy" (without > the quotes) - it did not work. Can you provide an example that > demonstrates your theory?
No, my theory was wrong. I believed whoever said that & could be used as an AND operator. No, the "&" character (without the quotes) is just another character in the string, so that if you look for "A&B" (without the quotes) you are actually looking for the three characters A, & and B, one next to the other. I have just tested and proved this. Actually, the HELP file doesn't say anything about & because it does nothing special: ,----- [ Using special syntax in signal strings ] | The following special syntax is available for use in signal strings: | | Pipe character "|" can be used when the signal string contains two | alternatives. For example, string John|Jack means that the filter will | search for John OR Jack in the specified location. If either is present, | the search is successful. If neither are present, the search fails. | | Square brackets [ ] mean that text enclosed by them will be searched for | as a phrase. i.e. search for [Jack] will be successful for the sentence | "Jack is a good man", but not for "Jackson guitars are very good for | beginners". | | Text enclosed in quotation marks is case-sensitive, i.e. the signal | string "Internet" will be found in the sentence "The Internet is growing | very rapidly" but not in "InTeRnEt RuLeZ" | | Any text containing the special characters mentioned above, must be | enclosed in single quotes, like this: '["New" generation mailing list]' | | See also: Regular Expression Syntax (Basic) `----- What I have not tested is if the | character can be used for more than 2 alternatives. I always use the Alternatives tab. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v1.62i ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62r | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
