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 that contain both a and b are found.

[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 that contain either a or b, or both are found.

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 that contain c and either a or b are found.

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.