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Searching for quoted text
Authored by: PeteVerdon on May 22, '05 09:42:53AM

You misunderstand the question. Escaping the quotes was a possible solution for searching for a word that itself contains quotes. Say you have a lot of stories among your documents, and you want to search for someone saying hello, you might search for "hello" _including the quotes_. If using quotes turns it into a filename-only search, then that wouldn't work. To be able to do that you need a way of telling Spotlight that these quotes are not an instruction to do anything special. The standard Unix way of doing that is to precede them with slashes as Bryce suggested, but it's not clear if this works in Spotlight.

Pete



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