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How do you search for strings with punctuation?

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How do you search for strings with punctuation?

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How do you search for strings with punctuation?

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In the Portal it is not possible to search for an exact text string that contains punctuation because punctuation characters are not included in the indexing and have a space substituted for them.? For example a search for "compound.word" actually searches for "compound word".? This holds true for all punctuation characters as follows:

!"#$&'()*+./:;<=>?@[]^`{|}~ (a partial list derived from the alphabet.dat file)

The most reliable way to find the exact occurrence of a punctuated string is to create an event whose pattern data contains that string. The event fires when that exact string is found.

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Applies to version(s):? 6.2;7.0;7.1;7.2

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Modified date:
08 December 2018

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