Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
| Search for | Example | Results |
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
| Search for | Operator | Example |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Data type: Character
The character data type is a primitive data type represented by the number 2 in the database. A character data type is typically expressed as a character string. A character string has the following characteristics:
- It must be enclosed in double quotation marks.
- It can be any combination of letters, digits spaces, or special characters.
- It can contain any special characters including those used as operators.
- It can contain a double quotation mark, but it must be preceded by a backslash (\) to enable the system to distinguish between double quotation marks as part of the string and a double quote at the beginning or end of the string. For example,
"Vendor=\"473\""denotes the string:Vendor="473". - It can contain non-characters, such as two hexadecimal digits preceded by a backslash.
- It can treat any special or reserved character as a literal character by preceding it with a backslash.
- It can present a literal backslash (\) by containing a double backslash (\\).
- It can be any length, including zero.
- An empty (for example, length of zero) character string is not the same as a character string with a NULL value.
The following table presents some examples.
| Description | Literal examples |
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| Alphabetic | "abcde" |
| Numeric | "12379" |
| Alphanumeric | "a1276b45" |
| Special | "$%=+*#@/" |
| Mixed | "$vendor" |
| Mixed | "$12379@6:54" |
| Mixed | "A1276%#B" |
| Hexadecimal | "\01\ff\c2" |
| Containing backslash | "C:\\Program Files\\Micro Focus\\Service Manager 9.34\\Server\\RUN\\sm.ini" |
| Containing double quote | "Enter the \"uid\" in the Unique ID field" |
