J. Landman Gay wrote: > All the "find" options are pretty useful. Suppose I am searching for > "good dog": > > find "good dog" -- finds any card which contains "good" and "dog" at the > beginning of words, not necessarily together and not necessarily even in > the same field. For example, will tag "goodly dogma" as a match but not > "good underdog". Will tag "dog is good" as a match even though they are > in a different order. Will tag a card if "dogma" is in one field and > "good" is in another. This is hugely handy. For example, if I remember > someone's first name and the city they live in, I can find them by > seraching for "john san francisco" and even though the name and address > are in different fields, the card will be found. > > find whole "good dog" -- finds only the whole phrase, and only where the > phrase is made up of whole words. I.e., won't find "good dogma". Similar > to the "offset" solution, except that it won't tag matches if they > aren't comprised of exactly the words in the search phrase. > > find words "good dog" -- finds only whole words, but they can be in any > order and not necessarily in the same field. Will tag a card as a match > if one field contains "good eating" and another field contains "hot > dog". Would not match if the second field contains "hot dogs" though, > because "dogs" isn't the word we're looking for. > > find string "goo do" -- I don't use this much because it takes too long. > But it can be handy if you need to look for a specific sequence of > characters, including the spaces and punctuation in the sequence. This > one would not match "good dog", but would match "mr. magoo does it". The > string does not have to be at the beginning of a word. > > find chars "goo do" -- find each string of characters comprising each > part of the search phrase. In other words, find any sequence of "goo" > and any sequence of "do", not necessarily together and not necessarily > at the beginning of words. Would tag "does magoo" as a match, even if > the two words were in different fields. This variation is also > time-consuming to run, but can be invaluable if you need to find partial > strings that may be located in different fields anywhere on a card.
Most excellent description of the Find command I've come across yet. Thank you! -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site ___________________________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 AIM: FourthWorldInc _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
