By default, Concord does a whole-word non-case-sensitive search.
Basic Examples
search word |
finds |
book |
Book or book or BoOk |
book* |
book, books, booking, booked |
*book |
textbook (but not textbooks) |
b* |
banana, baby, brown etc. |
*ed |
walked, wanted, picked etc. |
bo* in |
book in, books in, booking in (but not book into) |
book * hotel |
book a hotel, book the hotel, book my hotel |
bo* in* |
book in, books in, booking in, book into |
book? |
book, books, book; book. |
book^ |
book, books |
b^^k |
book, back, bank, etc. |
==book== |
book (but not BOOK or Book) |
book/paperback |
book or paperback |
symbol |
meaning |
examples |
* |
disregard the end of the word, disregard a whole word |
tele* *ness *happi* book * hotel |
? |
any single character (including punctuation) will match here |
Engl??? ?50.00 |
# |
any sequence of numbers, 0 to 9 |
$# £#.00 |
^ |
any single letter of the alphabet will match here |
Fr^nc^ |
== |
case sensitive |
==French== ==Fr*== |
:\ |
means use a file for lots of search-words (see file-based search_words) |
c:\text\frd.txt |
/ |
separates alternative search-words. You can specify alternatives within an 80-character overall limit |
may/can/will |
<> |
beginning & end of tags |
<w NN1> |
If you want to use *, ? , == , #, ^ , :\, >, < or / as a character in your search word, put it in double quotes. Examples: "*" Why"?" and"/"or ":\" "<" Don't forget that question-marks come at the end of words (in English anyway) so you might need *"?"
If you need to type in a symbol using a code, they can be symbolised like this: {CHR(xxx)} where xxx is the decimal number of the code. Examples: {CHR(13)} is a carriage-return, {CHR(10)} is a line-feed, {CHR(9)} is a tab. To represent <Enter> which comes at the end of paragraphs and sometimes at the end of each line, you'd type {CHR(13)}{CHR(10)} which is carriage-return followed immediately by line-feed. {CHR(34)} refers to double inverted commas. {CHR(46)} is a full stop. There is a list of codes at http://www.asciitable.com/
Tags You can also specify tags in your search-word if your text is tagged. Examples:
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See also: Tag Concordancing, Context Word, Modify source texts, Ignore punctuation
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