

Now I can't imagine "practicing law" without being able to hop onto the Internet once or twice a day to find information, send an e-mail, located some caselaw, get the lowdown on an opposing party, search for an expert or do any of a myriad of things that were unimaginable years ago. So that's what that "search" button with the flashlight is! With that one glimpse into what it really meant to "surf" the Internet, I was launched onto the adventure. One day after the dust was sufficiently thick, I just happened to be watching my sister as she logged onto the Internet and ran a search query for some census data.

So, it lost its novelty and gathered dust, and I continued to trudge to the law library and rely on my trusty word processor. It was slow, cumbersome and, frankly, I couldn't find anything particularly of interest. I remember initially poking around and trying to figure out how to "find" something. But, being one ready to investigate the latest in computer ware, I signed up for the Internet. My response was, "What is the Internet?" Her explanation of "It's a bunch of computers hooked together through various phone lines," was not particularly helpful.

The * and ? wildcards can be used, and regular expression matching using the # prefix is also possible.About four years ago, a client ex-tolled the joys of "surfing" the Internet. Stemming, phonic searching, fuzzy searching, and synonym searching cannot be used in a name search (so the characters &, ~, %, and # can be searched in filenames). A search for xfilter(name ".\text\*") or xfilter(name "*text\*") will find documents, but a search for xfilter(name "c:\docs\text\*") will not find any documents, because the index does not store the "c:\docs" part of the path. For example, if documents are in c:\docs\text, and the index is in c:\docs\index, the relative path of the documents stored in the index will be. A filespec without a slash is matched against the filename without the path.) If the index is created with relative paths, the path information must match the relative path settings for the index. (dtSearch will attempt to match the filespec against filenames with and without path information.

Matches file if the file name matches the filespec.
