Mail searches etc.

[Andrew Brown]

On 1 Feb 2008, at 12:41, Tony Crockford wrote:

> On 1 Feb 2008, at 11:25, Andrew Brown wrote:
>
>> These are my results:
>>
>> 4 février = 811 hits
>> "4 février" = 644
>>
>> 4 = 29700
>> "4" = 15483
>>
>> février = 1105
>> "février" = 1100
>>
>> Hardly any of the "4 février" hits have the string "4 février" in  
>> them, just a 4 and a février. I have not worked out the difference  
>> between the 811 and the 644, or between any of the other figures  
>> for that matter...
>
> Assuming this is Tiger?
>
> On Leopard I get 1 result for 4 fevrier, 58 for  4 and 1 for "4  
> fevrier"
>
> my guess is that tiger does "or" searches  and "search terms"  
> creates and "and" search, but not a string search.
>
> in leopard mail.app does "and" searches, with "search terms"  
> creating a  string search

Yes, Tiger. Perhaps the quotes make the search a complete word  
search, suggesting that I have 5 occurrences of février adjacent to a  
character that is not a word delimiter, 15483 occurrences of the  
figure 4 on its own, and so on. On the other hand, it may all be more  
or less random, "here's the stuff we can be bothered to tell you  
about right now"...

AB