Searching text strings with symbols

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Hi - I want to search for text that contains a specific string. I believe I do that by placing the string in quotation marks “”. The string I am searching includes a Percentage symbol e.g %england. I only want hits on %england, not on plain old england.

However, when I run a search “%england”, DT ignores the % symbol and returns hits on both %england and england.

Is there anyway I can get DT to search only for the string %england?

Thanks,

Ben

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The search function will only find alphanumeric characters. As you have discovered, non-alphanumeric characters are ignored (the wildcard characters * and ? are an exception).