Help - Guide for General Users - Searching for Files

Background

In order to search for a file, you must identify:

• the variable by which you are searching; and
• the string of text you are searching for.

  For example, if you want to find files with a certain account number, you must tell the computer:

• that you are searching for files by account number; and
• the specific account number you are looking for.

Wild Card Searches

If you wish to find a file by the last part of a person's account number, you can use a "wild card" character: '%'.  For example, if you search by "%3118", the system will return records with account numbers of "311876", "311877", "3118zzz", "43118", "zzz3118", etc.

• %    Any string of zero or more characters
• _ (underscore)    Any single character
• [ ]    Any single character within the specified range ([a-f]) or set ([abcdef])
• [^]   Any single character not within the specified range ([^a-f]) or set ([^abcdef])

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