Using DA 3.2. How do I search for a literal “&” - ampersand character?
So I’m searching for something like the phrase “HK&G”. I want to ensure the ampersand is in the result. By the same token, how do I search for the word “and”? Using the same example, I want to search for “HK and G”.
So my searches to me would be:
“HK&G” or “hk and g”
but it seems that the word “and” certainly introduces more results than I’d like.
Also, if I just search on “hk g” I get too many irrelevant results.
Even searching this forums for previous questions about & and AND proved difficult : )
I’m working with tags in text documents that are either prepended with an “&” or a “#”. For instance a document may have the tags #help#unix within the text of the document itself.
May I infer from your reply that only alphanumeric characters can be searched and thus tags like this are essentially unworkable/useless for narrowing down documents that have them?
If so I suppose the only recourse is to create a tag made of alphanumerics.
Yes. The starting characters in your text keywords are ignored in searches. Rather than using “#” you might try using something like “zz” for the first characters in your keywords, as that would be searchable.