[X4U] Spotlight - Searching For An Exact String

[keithw]

Kirk McElhearn wrote:

> 
> On Jul 11, 2005, at 7:09 PM, revDAVE wrote:
> 
>> I am curious, I am not sure whether spotlight or the new tiger find  
>> command
>> are capable of doing the following: searching for an Exact String  
>> inside of a content search... 
>> Such issue would use @ Google when you enclose  a 
>> phrase in quotes...
>>
>> ... So, if I search for Woody Allen -  I might find it a text  
>> document with
>> the word Woody and then elsewhere in the document the name  Allen ... 
>> -  but not necessarily the ACTOR director Woody Allen...
>>
>> ... But if I search for "Woody Allen" in quotes ... I would expect  to 
>> find the exact  name of the ACTOR/director...
>>
>> So - I am wondering if we can get either spot light or the apple find
>> command in Tiger to perform the same way with content searches.


> When you search for a string in quotes in Spotlight, it only looks in  
> file names...
> 
> 
> Kirk

And, there's no option to search for a string in the text body, in 
addition to the title of the document or folder?
If not, that's a serious deficiency. And after they touted Spotlight so 
heavily, it's a crippled search tool?

keith whaley