Re: Re: AIS: online database

> >Will that also work if CLARENCE is farther back than a parent? For
> >example, if the pedigree includes something like X (CLARENCE x poobah),
> >will the search engine ignore the intervening parentheses?
> >

There is a secret, undocumented feature that people might be interested
in.

If they do a search for 

   CLARENCE x %poobah

it will treat the % as a wildcard.  So that essentially becomes

   CLARENCE x *poobah

and will match any amount of text (including parantheses, etc.) between the
' x ' and the word poobah.  It will not take into account the level of 
parantheses -- only whether or not both strings are in the lineage.

Try it with 'Sandman%Smoke', for example.  It matches Busy Butterfly's
parentage of  

   ((Summer Sandman x Kalahari) x (Stepping Out x Tinsel Town)) X Smoke Rings

Would it be more intuitive to make that a '*' instead of '%'?

Chris

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