Advanced Search - Searching using "Contains" Operator

Here is an example of how the CONTAINS operator works in FileHold.

In this example we will use 4 different documents (A, B, C & D) containing the words “certain”, “uncertain”, “certainty” & “uncertainty” respectively.  

Here are examples of searches using CONTAINS in a variety of:

1.)          cert                 :  No search results found

2.)         *cert                : No search results found

3.)         ?cert                : No search results found

4.)          cert*               : Documents containing “certainty” and “certain” were found.

5.)         *cert*               : Documents containing “certain”, “uncertain”, “certainty” & “uncertainty” were found.

6.)         ?cert*              :  No search results found

7.)        ?cert?               : No search results found

8.)        ??cert*             : Documents containing “uncertain” and “uncertainty” were found.

9.)        certain*            : Documents containing “certain” and “certainty” were found.

10.)     uncertain*        : Documents containing “uncertain” and “uncertainty” were found.

11.)     certain?            : No search results found

12.)    ?certain             : No search results found

13.)    certain??           : Document containing “certainty” was found.

14.)    ??certain           : Document containing “uncertain” was found.

15.)    *?certain           : Document containing “uncertain” was found.

16.)   *certain*           : Documents containing “certain”, “uncertain”, “certainty” & “uncertainty” were found.

17.)   *?certain?*       : Document containing “uncertainty” was found.

18.)   ?*cert*?             : Documents containing “uncertain” and “uncertainty” were found.

19.)   ?*cert?*             : Documents containing “uncertain” and “uncertainty” were found.

20.)    cert*?                : Documents containing “certain” and “certainty” were found.

21.)    cert?*                : Documents containing “certain” and “certainty” were found.