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From: Jonathan.Ashwell@p911.f421.n109.z1.Fidonet.Org (Jonathan Ashwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Boolean Searches
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Date: 22 Apr 91 14:35:24 GMT
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The ability to globally Mark cards by finding... is a great way to do
boolean OR searches, but I can't figure out an elegant way to make it
work for AND searches. If there are multiple items to search for,
simply doing a repetitive "mark cds by finding "foo" " (and then foo1,
foo2, etc) will make a list of all cds that have any of the items. Is
there a simple way to mark only the cards that have ALL of the items?
      The only solution I have come up with is to mark all cards that
have the first item, then go to each marked card and do a manual-type of
search for all the rest in that card, and unmark a card if the rest of the
words are not found.
      Also, is there a way of marking cards where something is NOT
found? Something like: "mark cards by NOT finding "foo" ".

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