What to enter?
What it is...
A keyword search allows you to enter a set of keywords and search
all the documents for instances of the words entered.
Alternatively you may elect to enter a phrase and have the search
engine search explicitly for that phrase in all the documents.
But wait, there's more... you can even do searches which combine the two.
The search engine
The search engine is something that I built. Think of it belonging
in the same class of engines as mopeds. It's nothing extravagant but
it gets the job done. It's a hack of my first PERL script.
It's probably inefficient as hell but what ya want for nothing?
How to enter keywords
Keywords are a combination of plain text and regular expressions.
To enter keywords, separate each word by a comma. The words will be
or'd together.
For example, to perform a search that includes trace flags or 605 one
would enter the following:
trace flags|605
Phrases
Phrases are more than one word type of searches. Searching via
phrases is limited because the current implementation does't allow
for phrases to span more than one line. If the need arises I may
implement this.
Multiple phrases can be entered by separating them with a bar: |.
To search for documents that have the phrase activate trace
flags you'd enter:
activate trace flags
Ignore case?
If this button is pressed, then the search searches hi and low for a
match. (Yes the pun was intended).
fiz will match Fiz, fIZ and so on...
Perl Regular Expressions
If you'd like you can read a bit more
about Perl's regular expressions handling.
I have have intentionally removed the links from the snarfed man
page. Please go to www.perl.com
for complete details.