Boolean Text Search

You can perform advanced searches, using boolean operators or wildcards.

You can use the following elements:

And [+]

[a and b]

When entering strings separated by and (or a plus sign), all files are found that contain both a and b.

[And] is the default setting when no boolean operator is used, for example, you can also enter [a b].

Or [,]

[a or b]

When entering strings separated by or (or a comma), files are found that contain either a or b, or both.

Not [-]

[not b]

When entering text preceded by not (or a minus sign), all files not containing b are found.

Parentheses [()]

[(a or b) + c]

Using parentheses, you can group text strings. In this example, files are found that contain c and either a or b.

Quotation marks []

[your search text]

With quotation marks, you can define sequences of several words. Files are found if they contain the sequence of words that you entered.

Important

When you are searching for files whose names contain a hyphen, put the search text in quotation marks. Otherwise the program treats the hyphen as the boolean operator not.

Note

These operators can also be used for logical filtering.