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Substring Searches!!
Authored by: iRideSnow on May 28, '04 04:36:40PM

But how do you make the Finder search for substrings? For example, if create a text file that contains "Hello World", you can search for "world" and find it. However, if you change it to "HelloWorld" and do the same search, it won't find it. Very annoying!

What I really want is the ability to choose weather I want to do a "whole word" search, which is what the Finder search currently does, or a substring search, which it doesn't seem capable of doing. Or at least I haven't hit upon the magic combination that allows it.

I've filed a bug with Apple about it, but it wasn't fixed in the 10.3.4 release. Oh well.

Rob



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Substring Searches!!
Authored by: david-bo on Jun 11, '04 05:39:31AM

The Find command in Finder performs substring matching.

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