Search for "."

roberto_george · Post by **roberto_george** » Thu Jan 17, 2002 10:45 am

When I trying to send a query with the words "i.q." there are no results .. but when I search for "i q" the first result from the sets has "I.Q." in the title. There is something that I should do in order to search for "." ?

Post by **mark** » Thu Jan 17, 2002 1:04 pm

That would work except if it's the last term in the query. In an attempt to filter grammatical noise, the trailing ., !, or ? is removed from the user's input. You can use another term after i.q., as in "i.q. the" (the will be removed since it's a noise word, but will protect the . after q) or place another . on the end, as in "i.q.."

roberto_george · Post by **roberto_george** » Thu Jan 17, 2002 3:53 pm

ok with the ".." at the end it works .. but it didn't find anything if i try to search for "i.q" and in this the dot are not at the end of the phrase !

also I try something like a?c in order to find anything that has 3 letters and start with "a" and end with "c" and doesn't seems to work either ..

Post by **mark** » Thu Jan 17, 2002 5:26 pm

The default index expressions index normal words, "brain", and words with dot ampersand and apostophe in them, "I.Q." "at&t" "o'brian". "i.q" does not match "i.q.". See http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/ ... Definition

a?c has no meaning to Texis "like" queries. There's a wildcard you can use within words which is * "a*b". To do arbitrary pattern matching you would need to use REX. To do so you need to enable linear searching which we generally advise against and is turned off by default. See http://www.thunderstone.com/texis/site/ ... rface+Help for help in forming queries.