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[crisp]

Hi

Can I used the Wizard to run a search on all names containing the word "rain" but not Lorraine, train, brain, etc?

Putting a space ahead of the word eliminates these but also songs that start with the word "rain" such as Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head.

Using quote marks, brackets and other suggestions in the Wiki generate no results.

[crisp]

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[mwillems]

The string "^rain" will return results that contain the word rain, but not Lorraine.

However it can't distinguish between "Lorraine" and "Raindrops," it will only return entries with the word "rain" by itself.

I don't know how one could construct a filter that would successfully distinguish between compound words that include "rain" and words that just have the pattern "rain" in them.  How would you construct a filter that would return "Raindrops" but not "Rainier" (the name)?

[crisp]

Thanks. In answer to your question, theoretically I can imagine an option for multiple search queries, eg, all names containing "^rain"; "^raindrops"; "^raining", etc. But I don't know how that would be achieved.

[mwillems]

Thanks. In answer to your question, theoretically I can imagine an option for multiple search queries, eg, all names containing "^rain"; "^raindrops"; "^raining", etc. But I don't know how that would be achieved.

The "or" operator would allow you to join such a hypothetical list if you want to create such a search, but you'd need to manually identify all of the rain derivatives you want included.  You could probably do something more sophisticated with the expression language, but virtually any higher level search would have a hard time distinguishing between Raindrops and Rainier (the name), etc..