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Search wildcard strangeness


Ken Simpson

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While helping out on another topic looking for variant spellings of words in JDC I came across this strangeness that I would love some insight into.

 

searching for timh@-“?im*” works nicely

 

but when I changed it slightly to timh@-“*im*” the search failed with not found. I think I know why this is happening.

 

but I experimented

 

timh@-“??im*” failed - not found

 

timh@-“???im*” worked but found exactly the same hits as timh@-“?im*”

 

timh@-“????im*” failed - not found

 

While I expected ??im*” and “????im*” (depending on the actual inflected forms in the corpus, I was surprised that “???im*” worked but seemingly found the wrong hits.

 

All those searches worked fine as non-negated items so I am sure I am not getting my head around the boolean logic.

 

The more I think about this the less it feels like a bug in Accordance and more like a bug in me.

 

Thanks for insights.

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These results are possible in theory but it will depend upon the attested forms of timh. Do you have a complete list ? I don't have the JDC.

 

Thx

D

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I assumed Judean Desert Corpus

 

Thx

D0

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Yep. Daniel is correct.

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