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You can search for any word or phrase on this Web site by typing the word or phrase above query form and clicking the "Search" button to execute the query.
Searches produce a list of files that contain the word or phrase no matter where they appear in the text. This list gives the rules for formulating queries:
- Consecutive words are treated as a phrase; they must appear in the same order within
a matching document.
- Queries are case-insensitive, so you can type your query in uppercase or lowercase.
- You can search for any word except for those in the exception list (for English,
this includes a, an, and, as, and other common
words), which are ignored during a search.
- Words in the exception list are treated as placeholders in phrase and proximity
queries. For example, if you searched for ?Word for Windows?, the results could
give you ?Word for Windows? and ?Word and Windows?, because for is a noise
word and appears in the exception list.
- Punctuation marks such as the period (.), colon (:), semicolon (;), and comma (,)
are ignored during a search.
- To use specially treated characters such as &, |, ^, #, @, $, (, ), in a query,
enclose your query in quotation marks (?).
- To search for a word or phrase containing quotation marks, enclose the entire phrase
in quotation marks and then double the quotation marks around the word or words
you want to surround with quotes. For example, "World-Wide Web" or "Web" searches
for World-Wide Web or Web.
- You can insert Boolean operators (AND,
OR, and NOT) and the proximity
operator (NEAR) to specify additional search information.
- The wildcard character (*) can match words with a given
prefix. The query esc* matches the terms 'ESC', 'escape', and so on.
Boolean and proximity operators can create a more precise query.
| To Search For |
Example |
Results |
| Both terms in the same page |
access and basic
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Pages with both the words "access" and "basic" |
| Either term in a page |
cgi or isapi
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Pages with the words "cgi" or "isapi" |
| The first term without the second term |
access and not basic
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Pages with the word "access" but not "basic" |
| Pages not matching a property value |
not @size = 100
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Pages that are not 100 bytes |
| Both terms in the same page, close together |
excel near project
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Pages with the word "excel" near the word "project" |
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