Re: Re: AIS: online database

On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 05:22  AM, laurief wrote:


Would it be more intuitive to make that a '*' instead of '%'?
I think so, yes. Folks are already accustomed to using the wildcard * -
the percent sign % just confuses the matter, IMHO.
Yes, but the asterisk operator generally works differently.

An asterisk (*) may be used to specify zero or more alphanumeric
characters. For example, searching for the term h*s would yield results
which contain such words as his, homes, houses, horses,
horticulturalists, and herbaceous. It is usually best to avoid using
the asterisk as the first character in a search string. A search term
consisting of a lone asterisk and no other alphanumeric characters will
retrieve every record from the database.

HOWEVER, The irisregister search engine does not recognize the asterisk operator, but has an implied wildcard unless you select "Whole word match". I.e., if you search for "nav" (without the quotes) you will get hits from navy, navarone, navagate etc.

The % operator functions much differently (and is very powerful)

I need to have a discussion with Chris before we change anything.

John | "There be dragons here"
| Annotation used by ancient cartographers
| to indicate the edge of the known world.

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