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Exact string search

Posted: 05 Nov 2022 15:52
by instrumentally
Am I overlooking something or is there a hole in the search function (CTRL+F)? I see no way to search for a precise multi word string. E.g., I want to find files that have the precise string "hello world" in them. Unfortunately, XYPlorer returns results for files such as:

hello from the world.txt
world hello.txt
world away but hello.pdf

That is not what I am trying to search for. I want only files that have the precise word "hello" followed by a space followed by "world". Unless I am missing something, what I am looking to accomplish cannot be done.

Re: Exact string search

Posted: 05 Nov 2022 16:03
by highend
It acts like this because you have
Configuration | Find and Filter | Find Files & Branch View | Find Files | [x] Enable smart Boolean query parsing
ticked...

*hello world*

Re: Exact string search

Posted: 05 Nov 2022 17:05
by instrumentally
Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.