Anthony Sepulveda Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 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: 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Λύχνις Δαν Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve King Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 (edited) 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 Edited November 29, 2014 by Steve King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Λύχνις Δαν Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Hi Steve, Yeah I tried something like that but it didn't work. . does not appear to be able to match ) Thx D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve King Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 Works OK on the Mac. Maybe a windows problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Λύχνις Δαν Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 (edited) 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 Edited November 29, 2014 by Daniel Semler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve King Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 (edited) 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. Edited November 29, 2014 by Steve King Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Λύχνις Δαν Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 I got that error too. I was just thinking more about that and I wonder why it doesn't work too. Thx D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Helen Brown Posted November 29, 2014 Share Posted November 29, 2014 You can also search for "The law of firstlings * as of sacrifices in general" so that the asterisk stands for the parenthesis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Sepulveda Posted November 30, 2014 Author Share Posted November 30, 2014 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): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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