Question about "OR" search

[TYA]

Great day.  Can someone answer this question for me please (see attached screenshot)?  Thank you.

[Helen Brown]

What text are you searching?

 

There may be a logistical limit to the number of s in a search. It may do better in a Construct, but the correct way to perform this search is simply:

*?(abdef)*

where the parentheses list all the desired single characters represented by the ?.

[TYA]

What text are you searching?

 

It is my own Hebrew unicode version which I imported, and the reason verse references appear within the biblical text in the screenshot--(I had to figure this out myself)--is because the text file I imported had verses without any text in them.  The verse markers themselves (e.g. "Gen 1:1") were all present, but if any verse had no Hebrew text in it, then for some reason Accordance messed up the versification when I imported it.  (Is anybody else having the same problem??)  At any rate, the solution I figured out is to reopen the text file and place a dash "-" into any verse without biblical text.  Then Accordance "acknowledges" it properly.  (Wish this problem wasn't the case).

 

 

There may be a logistical limit to the number of <OR>s in a search.

 

This wasn't the case.  I went back and searched just the following: *a* <OR> *f*   which certainly doesn't exceed any limit; but because "f" wasn't found, I got the same message saying that "The selected word cannot be found in..."  That makes no sense.  Logically speaking, search results should be produced if any single character in the "OR" search is found, which is the case.

 

 

but the correct way to perform this search is simply: *?(abdef)*...

 

Thanks.  That worked perfectly