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Search Examples
These examples are general, and most will yield real results when used in conjunction with our live demo, which can be found at:
Simple Searches
I-FIND searches are not case-sensitive, and it will attempt to match your term anywhere it finds it (see Field Searches below for information on searching individual fields). Use with a space character (" ") at the beginning and end of a search term to yield whole word results.
| search term | matches |
| pul | Drive Pulley and Reduction Pulley |
| PuL | same as above |
Additionally, if "pul" showed up in any other field, it would match as well.
Field Searches
You can narrow I-FIND's search by selecting a desired field. When searching a single field, you may also use the beginning of field match (^) and end of field match ($) to further focus the search.
| search term | matches |
| 123, with Part Number selected | p/n 123-456 and 456-123 |
| ^123, with Part Number selected | p/n 123-456, but not 456-123 |
| 123$, with Part Number selected | p/n 456-123, but not 123-456 |
Advanced Searches
Although I-FIND cannot use Boolean AND and OR, you can achieve a similar effect with regular expressions.
To emulate an AND, use .* (order is important -- A.*B matches ABC but not BCA). The . matches any character and the * extends the match for any number of characters.
Use | to precisely emulate an OR. If you are familiar with programming, this should be no surprise, as | is a commonly used character for logical OR statements.
| search term | matches |
| 123.56 | 123456, 1234456, 12356 |
| 00241 | 00129 | only 00241 related items (same as above, but separated with spaces) |
| 00241 *| *00129 | uses star after space character to eliminate danger of matching or not matching spaces (* means any number, including 0) |
| 0012[2-4] | items for part numbers 00122, 00123, and 00124 |
| 0012[24] | items for part numbers 00122 and 00124 |
| (00241|00129).*boom_box | either of the two part numbers followed by the string "boom_box" |
| 123*56 | 12356, 12333356, 1256, but not 123456 * matches any number (0 and up) of the character preceding it |
| 123.56 | 123456, but not 1234456 . is a single instance of any character |
| 123.*56 | 123456, 1234456, 12356 (repeated from above) |
| 123.+56 | 123456, 1234456, but not 12356 + requires at least 1 occurrence of the preceding character |
For more information on regular expressions: