How Do You Do That???

[johncalvinhall]

I am wanting to find all the Perfect Tense Verbs in a certain chapter.

I set my Search Parameters to SCM and Limits to Rev 6.
I then type in .*@vix*.
It doesn't like what I am asking...

therefore I must be doing something wrong!

Any suggestions?

[Adelphos]

If you have your limits set to Rev 6 there are no matches in that chapter for your criteria. IOW, there are no VIX in Revelation 6 in SCM.

[johncalvinhall]

If you have your limits set to Rev 6 there are no matches in that chapter for your criteria. IOW, there are no VIX in Revelation 6 in SCM.

At first I thought, "Doh!" Then I went back and searched the whole NT. It still balks.

The weird thing is when I type ".*@vix*" I actually get ".;@vix*". This is why I think I am doing something wrong.

[Adelphos]

If I set SCM as my search version and search the whole NT with --

.*@vix*

I get 731 verses with 277 forms as my search result. IOW, everything works fine.

[johncalvinhall]

If I set SCM as my search version and search the whole NT with --

.*@vix*

I get 731 verses with 277 forms as my search result. IOW, everything works fine.

The following attachment is a Screen Capture.

As I mentioned, when I type ".*@vix*" I actually get ".;@vix*".

[Adelphos]

Why do you have a period AND a semi-colon? You can't do that. Remove the semi-colon, or remove the period. You can't have both.

You also need the asterisk BEFORE the @. IOW, you search should look EXACTLY like this --

.*@vix*

[johncalvinhall]

Why do you have a period AND a semi-colon? You can't do that. Remove the semi-colon, or remove the period. You can't have both.

You also need the asterisk BEFORE the @. IOW, you search should look EXACTLY like this --

.*@vix*

Take a look at my previous posts please.

Whenever I type * [SHIFT-8], it always gives me that ";" at that one location. Why? I donot know. I was thinking I had been doing something wrong, because it gives me * after the @.

[Adelphos]

You didn't say that it was automatically putting in the semi-colon. If that's the case, then it's a problem specific to your system because it doesn't happen on any of my computers.

Either way, as I said before, you can NOT have BOTH the period AND the semi-colon. Get rid of one of them, and also put the asterisk BEFORE the @ sign, which you did NOT do in your example.

[Glenn Weaver]

The problem with the search is that you have accent-sensitive searching turned on. If you look at the 5 boxes immediately below the Command Line, you see that the 3rd box is yellow. This is an indicator that the accent-sensitive searching is turned on. You can place your cursor on that box to see the options that are set.

To turn off the accent-sensitive search, right-click within the Command Line and uncheck the Accent-Sensitive Searching (Greek) option toward the bottom of the list.

[johncalvinhall]

The problem with the search is that you have accent-sensitive searching turned on....

Glenn, this is exactly what I needed.

Thank you.