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trouble with including parentheses in searches


Anthony Sepulveda

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Hello,

 

I was looking for this phrase in the NB Commentary: "The law of firstlings (as of sacrifices in general)" (in p.214). However, when I put in this search condition, the program shows this error:

 

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I thought it had something to do with the parenthesis, so I put "The law of firstlings as of sacrifices in general" as the search text. But the program wasn't able to find it in the module.

 

So I don't get it: if the program doesn't want the parentheses included when searching 'text only', then how come it couldn't find the exact same text when I no longer include the parentheses? Or maybe it ought to have accepted the parenthesis, but something went wrong?

 

Thanks.

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Your search without the parens works for me if you search Content but only if you do not put quotes around it.

Is that what you are searching ?

 

I don't know of a way to escape parens. unfortunately.

 

thx

D

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A parenthesis is a special character. You need to put a full stop before the special character to show that you want to search for the character. So to search for a "(" you need to type ".(" ignoring the quotes.

To find what you want try "The law of firstlings .( as of sacrifices in general .)" again ignoring the quotes

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Hi Steve,

 

Yeah I tried something like that but it didn't work.

. does not appear to be able to match )

 

Thx

D

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Works OK on the Mac. Maybe a windows problem

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Really - my test was on Mac - I must be missing something.

Yes I was - this has to be done as an Exact search - Flex won't find it.

 

thx

D

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Actually I get an error if I try to find it with a flex search. It says "to search for a specific character a non-blank character must follow the '.'"

 

Well that does not make sense. I do have a non-blank character following the "." and surely flex should work if exact can? Or am I missing something?

 

Anyway the error message seems wrong if nothing else.

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I got that error too. I was just thinking more about that and I wonder why it doesn't work too.

 

Thx

D

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You can also search for "The law of firstlings * as of sacrifices in general" so that the asterisk stands for the parenthesis.

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A combination of these tips finally got it working. Thanks a lot!

 

And now that we're at it, I think there's also a small bug with the Search History list: there's an additional "É" at the end of each long item (see screenshot):

 

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