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Chapter 2
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Using databases 33
You can do one or more of the following during or after performing a find request:
Finding text and characters
Search for text in text fields, or in calculation fields that return a text result.
Unless you search for phrases and exact matches, the field can contain other values in addition to the one(s)
you specify, and the values can be in any order. For example, typing
hotel in a field named
Accommodation finds records for Hotel, Discount Hotel, and Hotel, Luxury.
To Do this
Cancel a find operation before it is finished and leave
the previous found set unchanged
Press Esc (Windows) or 2-period (Mac OS).
Change or refine criteria after performing a find request See “Viewing, repeating, or changing the last find” on page 40.
Narrow an existing found set See “Constraining (narrowing) a found set” on page 38.
Broaden an existing found set See “Extending (broadening) a found set” on page 39.
Show all records again In Browse mode, choose Records menu > Show All Records.
In Find mode, choose Requests menu > Show All Records.
You don’t need to choose Show All Records before performing finds.
FileMaker Pro always searches all records in the tables you specify unless
you have narrowed the existing found set.
Open another window in order to perform different
find requests on the same data
Choose Window menu > New Window.
To f i n d Type this in the field Examples
Words that start with specific Roman
characters (works with fields that use any
language except Japanese)
The characters Chris Smith finds Chris Smith, Smith
Chris, Chris Smithson, and Smith
Christenson
Words that start with Japanese Hiragana,
Katakana, or Kanji characters
The characters between = and * = 小田 * finds 小田 , 小田山 , and 小田川
A phrase or sequence of characters that
match when they are the first characters in a
word (match phrase from word start)
The literal text (characters), including
spaces and punctuation, between
double quotation marks (
")
"Marten and Jones Interiors" finds
Marten and Jones Interiors but not Jones
and Marten Interiors
", Ltd." finds all companies with ", Ltd."
in the name, but not those without the
comma
“Spring” finds Springville but not
ColdSpring Harbor or HotSpring
Words with one or more unknown or
variable characters (any one character)
One wildcard character (@) for each
unknown character
Gr@y finds Gray and Grey
@on finds Don and Ron but not Bron
Invalid characters in a text field ? Invalid characters display as blank
characters
Note To find the ? character, search for “?”
Digits in a text field (any one digit) A # character for each digit # finds 3 but not 30
## finds 30 but not 3 or 300
#3 finds 53 and 43 but not 3
Words with zero or more unknown or
variable text characters in a row (zero or
more characters)
* for all unknown characters Jo*n finds Jon and John
J*r finds Jr. and Junior
*phan* finds Phan and Stephanie