[X4U] Re: Re: spotlight question - search for a phrase (Kirk McElhearn)

[Kirk McElhearn]

On Nov 24, 2008, at 1:42 AM, stephen e. schwartz wrote:

>>
>> Spotlight does find all documents containing all words (it's an AND  
>> search). So you'll just have to open each of the PDF files it finds  
>> and do a find inside them to see where your string is. But it may  
>> have
>> the same problem with line breaks, so look just for, say, consonant.
>
> Kirk, thanks for your further reply. But I am _not_ looking for an  
> AND search; I am looking for a _string_ search. I dont want all the  
> documents that contain all of the words in the string; I want all  
> documents that contain the string. Still looking for a way to do this.

My point was that, since your string search doesn't work, you need to  
try a basic AND search.
>
>
> I dont beieve its a line break issue either; I chose a phrase that  
> in at least one document has no line breaks just to avoid that  
> possible issue. Though I would think that a clever search engine  
> would ignore line breaks.

Oh, you are sure that string exists with no line breaks?


Kirk

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