Boolean searching for topics within a Flare project

[jdfranklin]

Greetings.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but when I use the "Find in Files" function in Flare, I only get results if I use a single search term. Even if I try using two terms that are right there in a topic I'm staring at, I get no results.

By way of illustration, suppose I have a topic whose lead sentence is, "The astronaut orbited the earth." I'll search for:
astronaut + earth
astronaut AND earth
astronaut, earth
astronaut earth

...and never get a single result.

Surely this is operator error, yes? Flare can't possibly have excluded this fundamental capability from within its own application.

I know I can do this in the output (WebHelp). I don't want to search the output -- I want to search the project files.

I'm running Flare 6 and using the Find in Files command (CTRL + ALT + F).

Thanks very much.

Regards,

Jerry

[NorthEast]

Surely this is operator error, yes? Flare can't possibly have excluded this fundamental capability from within its own application.

I'm pretty sure you can't do boolean searches in the Flare application - not in a normal search anyway.

The search does have options to use Wildcards and Regular Expressions. Apart from the * character, I'm not sure what wildcards are valid though, and AFAIK MadCap hasn't documented them anywhere. I would guess that a regular expression could be used, but I don't undertsand regular expressions well enough to offer any advice about them.