Sonny Software

Within the find dialog box, are terms entered on the same line (i.e. in the text box on the left and on the right of one particular row) considered to be within parentheses? I'm trying to do a search that would be formatted like this:

(epidural or spinal) AND (opioid or local) NOT (clonidine or epinephrine)

I think I could do this using a REGEX search, but I thought I'd ask first if I could do this within the regular find dialog box by entering the respective ORs on the same line and then separating them by ANDs/NOTs from the line underneath.

Or, are they just taken as serial entries? Thanks!

Think of them as AND entries, with the space being the AND.

So, if in one field you enter

Smith 2005

Bookends will do a search for (Smith AND 2005).

In fact, that's how I do virtually all boolean searches.

Jon
Sonny Software

So, in order to do the search I noted above, I should use the REGEX feature?

With that complex a strucuture, that is probably your best bet.

Jon
Sonny Software