PieSearchingPages

Searching Contents

To search pages for character strings use the small text field on the left. Enter the text you are looking for and click *Find*. If one of the pages managed by Pie contains the entered string, the respective page is listed in the forthcoming table.

For a more advanced search mechanism that offers various options to be toggled and combined, click Find with an empty text string. This will take you to Pie's advanced search user interface.

Quick Search
This default search mode dives through the pages to find your text exactly as you type it. A page has to literally contain this string to produce a positive match. It does not distinguish between uppercase and lowercase letters. Use this mode whenever you know exactly what you are looking for. Due to its high performance it is used as the default search mode. If disabled, the query is performed more thoroughly, also picking and listing strings with variants that merely differ in the provided letters' case. This, however, is bought with slightly lower performance, since regular expression have to be employed.
Match Whole Word Only
Upon activating this option, the entered search string has to stand out as a single word, that is, it has to be surounded by blanks or non-word characters or find itself at the beginning or end of a sentence, respectively. Doing so, will match king only when this token stands for itself, like in "king and queen", but not in the middle of other words, like "clicking".

In either mode, Pie goes through the source pages literally to find the respective search string. The search mechanism makes no difference between normal text and meta text, the latter being text that is not actually displayed on the screen when displaying a page. If, for example, you searched for pages containing a literal equal sign and had pages with headline components available, these pages would show up among the candidates of pages containing your search string although the equal sign is converted into headline code instead of being displayed itself. The same applies to the name of links, which are, while being searched, treated as ordinary chunks of characters and part of the page's content. In general, meta text consists of control characters like those used as selectors at the beginning of lines and spans, as well as links to other pages placed inside brackets.

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