Searching for non-alpha characters

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1

Hi,

Is there any way to search on non-alpha characters?

For example, I might like to mark things to simulate a “checkbox” that I can find later with a search… something like:

[]

Or even something like ***

It seems DT won’t find anything that’s not alpha… I’ve never had luck.

I certainly realize the difficulty of using the default wildcard character to search with (***) but I’m not so sure why [] won’t work. I can use terms like TODO or FUP as a workaround, but they’re actually quite a bit harder for my eye to discover in plain text.

I’ve tried things like using quotes to escape the sequences, with the same results.

2

I recently posted on the same topic. The ability to search for at least currency symbols would be useful.

3

No, DT is only able to search for alphanumeric characters (words, numbers, dates/times etc.).

4

for alphanumeric also symbols from the greek language are excluded?
I mean symbols like “alpha”, “beta”, “mu” etc ?, ?, ?, ?, ?
Spotlight does the trick seamlessly!
Please can this feature be supported in the future releases?
thank you

5

That’s a shortcoming of our RTF parser and will be improved in the next major release. In the meantime you could use plain text or PDF documents.