Re: [Bibdesk-users] hyphens in quick search queries

[Christiaan H. <cmh...@gm...>]

On 27 Feb 2009, at 1:10 AM, Stuart Andrews wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Occasionally, I need to search my publications by their Cite Keys,  
> which are autogenerated with hyphens (e.g.  mccra-maxwe-hofma- 
> etal04a-bgamyb).
>
> Trouble is, when I search for "smith-adams" in the Quick Search  
> field, and I ask for matches in "Any Field", BibDesk returns all  
> publications that have "smith" AND "adams" substrings, and not only  
> the publications that contain the hyphenated query.
>
> Why is the hyphen treated as a space/AND?  I could not find an  
> answer in the help sections on Quick Search or in the Advanced  
> Search Options.
>

I'm not sure, this is not done by BibDesk itself. I guess SearchKit  
treats some characters such as hyphens equivalent to space.

> Next, I investigated the Database Find and Replace tool.  Hyphenated  
> queries work when I search the "Abstract" field.  But, oddly enough,  
> no results are returned when I search for an existing hyphenated  
> cite key (e.g. smith-adams) with the "Cite Key" field selected.
>

You must have done something wrong (and I can't say what), as this  
will simply do a substring match. Perhaps case sensitivity, or a  
different hyphen character or another typo?

Christiaan

> Puzzled ...
>
> Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> Stuart Andrews
> Bibdesk version 1.3.19