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Help for String
Enter the string you are searching for:
- To search for messages about John Kennedy, simply type John Kennedy in the search box. This will show all the messages that contain the words "John" and "Kennedy" close to one another.
- By surrounding John Kennedy in single quotation marks like 'John Kennedy', you limit the search to the exact phrase so that this search would not show messages about "John F. Kennedy".
- For a wider range of results, you could use (John Kennedy) OR JFK so that you also get the messages that say either "John Kennedy" or "JFK".
- To search for words that are not necessarily close to one another, use "AND". For instance, Mozart AND Beethoven would show all the messages that mention both composers, while Mozart Beethoven would only find a small fraction of them.
- To make a search case sensitive, enclose it in double quotation marks. If you are interested in the works of Norman Mailer, you will probably find that searching for Mailer returns a lot of unexpected messages, while "Mailer" gives much better results.
- You can get as sophisticated as you want: ((John Kennedy) OR JFK) AND NOT ((Bay Pigs) OR Cuba) would look for messages about JFK that do not mention Cuba or the Bay of Pigs.
- Some characters have special syntactical meaning to the database functions and must be enclosed in single quotes for correct results. For instance, parentheses need to be quoted in this manner: search for 'f(x)' instead of f(x).
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