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any idea why my case sensitive search is not working

asked on September 21, 2023

Executing a search looking for folders that end with a lower case alphabetic character.  I am having all folders returned.

My options are set as

Any ideas?

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replied on September 22, 2023

Tried a more literal reading of  https://go.laserfiche.com/support/webhelp/Laserfiche/10/en-us/userguide/#../Subsystems/client_wa/Content/Search/Wildcards.htm%3FTocPath%3DLaserfiche%2520Windows%2520and%2520Web%2520Client%7CSearch%7C_____6

and used this search

and it worked.  Odd that [0-9] works to find a digit, but [a-z] does not work to find a letter.  Thanks for the kick in the pants Chad :)

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replied on September 22, 2023

Can you post the article where you learned to write S*[a-z] for a case sensitive search?

Otherwise it could be many of the counter options you have enabled. Fuzzy search, find partial matches, include variations. All this seems to work against "Case Sensitivity" and I would turn all that off for explicit searches.

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replied on September 22, 2023 Show version history

No article involved, just used the information under searches & wildcards in the user guide.  I've tried it with all of the search option checkboxes off and trimmed the search down to *[a-z].  No joy.

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replied on September 22, 2023

I also tried running the syntax in a search in workflow (just for hah-hahs) and no difference.  

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replied on September 22, 2023

I think the user guide is web based so you should be able to link to the part you found this syntax.

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replied on September 22, 2023

Tried a more literal reading of  https://go.laserfiche.com/support/webhelp/Laserfiche/10/en-us/userguide/#../Subsystems/client_wa/Content/Search/Wildcards.htm%3FTocPath%3DLaserfiche%2520Windows%2520and%2520Web%2520Client%7CSearch%7C_____6

and used this search

and it worked.  Odd that [0-9] works to find a digit, but [a-z] does not work to find a letter.  Thanks for the kick in the pants Chad :)

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replied on September 22, 2023 Show version history

Aha, this is wildcard syntax, I was wondering what it was. It does not seem there is a wildcard available for "lower case" though. It seems you can search with case sensitivity but you must know what letters your looking for.

You might need to run 26 searches.

IE:

*a

*b

etc

 

Edit: Oh I see the brackets do accept case specific characters, so [abc..] works too

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replied on September 22, 2023

Your search syntax is not case sensitive. * matches any character regardless of casing.

S*[a-z]  will match anything starting with S and ending in a letter. "Case sensitive/accent sensitive" option would only ensure things start with a capital S and the last letter is lower case in this case.

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replied on September 22, 2023

"would only ensure things start with a capital S and the last letter is lower case in this case"  That is what I was going for and it didn't work.  You have to specify all of the characters between a and z.

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replied on September 25, 2023

Hm, yes, I can reproduce it. I filed defect #486803 for it.

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replied on September 25, 2023

Thanks

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