Wildcart Characters
When you search, you can use the operator * and ? to search for partial words. The question mark (?) can be replaced by any character. The star (*) can be replaced with any or no characters.
- [c?r]
matches car - [f*]
matches food, fast, furious, etc.
- [*plane]
matches plane, airplane, etc.
Boolean operators
You can also use the boolean operators and, or and not.
- [john and mariah]
matches all files with the words john and mariah - [not robert]
matches all files that do not contain the word robert - [john or robert or mariah]
matches all files that have one or more of the words john, robert or mariah - [john or (robert and mariah)]
matches files with the word john or the words robert or mariah
You can also combine the boolean operators with the wildcard characters.
- [eli%%sabeth]
matches elisabeth - [maria%%h]
matches maria and mariah
Don't know the spelling?
DutchImage supports a special kind of search called fuzzy search.
This allows you to find a word even if you misspell it when you search or if it has been misspelled when the file was described. You can use the fuzziness operator directly when you type a search.
Use to percentage signs (%%) immediately after eachother near the part of the word you suspect is misspelled.
- [eli%%sabeth]
matches elisabeth - [maria%%h]
matches maria and mariah
