Re: Boolean search in Dialog?

On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:36:25 GMT, /betty/ wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:34:54 -0400, Lew used 15 lines to assert:
>
>> On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:23:24 +1000, foxidrive wrote:
>>
>>> Use regular expressions.
>>
>> How would you do a regular expression search that was equivalent to the
>> Boolean search "microsoft AND exchange"?
>
> Dialog's inbuilt Help covers this topic fairly well, providing lots of
> syntax and constructs descriptions, plus useful examples.
>
> F1 is at your mercy.
>
> There are also several excellent Online sites that offer reqex tutors
> and/or string testers, any search engine will quickly lead you to them.

Thanks for the response. I had already checked under Help and there were
lots of examples, including "|" for the Boolean "OR", just none for the
Boolean "AND". Same for the Internet.

In a later post, wyzwyz posted the Regular Expression
"microsoft.*exchange|exchange.*microsoft" as equivalent to "microsoft AND
exchange" and it works. This is what I was asking for.

I like Dialog and will probably continue using it (until Agent gets Thread
Lines). I just don't want to have to learn a programming language to do
simple searches.

Lew
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