Search Tips
Here are some tips to help you find what you are looking for.
- Searches are not case sensitive.
- You can use the boolean operators AND, OR and NOT. When you do not connect
words using boolean operators, AND is used by default.
- Punctuation marks such as the period (.), colon (:), semicolon (;), and comma (,)
are ignored during a search.
- Highly common words such as "a", "an", "and", "as" and "the" are ignored in a
search, or are used as place holders in an exact phrase search.
- The wildcard * matches any number of characters, and the wildcard ? matches any
single character.
Search Examples
Here are some example searches with explanations.
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PHP tutorial
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Will find items that contain the words "PHP" and "tutorial".
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Delphi AND Programming
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Will only find items where both Delphi and Programming exist.
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Delphi OR Basic
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Will find items where either Delphi, Basic or both exist.
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Delphi AND NOT Basic
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Will find items that contain Delphi but do not contain Basic.
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"Visual Studio"
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Will find items containing the exact phrase "Visual Studio".
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graph*
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Will find all items containing words starting with graph, e.g. graphs, graphic, graphics.
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games w/5 C
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Will find all items that have the word games within 5 words of the word C.
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p%%olymorphizm
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Will do a fuzzy search, allowing one letter to be different. This is useful if you are unsure how to spell a word.
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hack~
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Will use stemming and match "hack", "hacking", "hacker" etc.
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For more help with searching, see the Search Help Page.
