Search Form

Use the form below to search for documents in the Frank Devlin website containing specific words or combinations of words. The text search engine will display a weighted list of matching documents, with better matches shown first. Each list item is a link to a matching document; if the document has a title it will be shown, otherwise only the document's file name is displayed. A brief explanation of the query language is available, along with examples.

Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and NOT, and grouped with parentheses. For example:

database design

finds documents containing 'database' or 'design'

database or design

same as above

database and design

finds documents containing both 'database' and 'design'

database not design

finds documents containing 'database' but not 'design'

(database not design) and SQL

finds documents containing 'SQL', plus 'database' but not 'design'

web*

finds documents containing words starting with 'web'

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