Texts are composed in HTML5 with US-ASCII encoding.
Processing before searching removes comments, tags, and spaces
including newlines, so you may not use search to find HTML tags or
attribute values, such as the filenames of images.
Regular expressions
The phrase “regular expression” is computer jargon for
a widely adopted syntax for defining search patterns. This syntax
lets you declare alternatives, negatives, abstract character
classes (such as digits, or space characters), unicode character
properties, and sentence, line, or word boundaries (a.k.a.
“anchors”). Regular expressions become an option for
search terms when the normal searches are implemented using regular
expressions, as in sharpgiving.com. See Pattern
syntax for regular expressions. If you check the “Regular
expression” option, we treat your complete “Terms to
search for” as one regular expression, but you must leave off
the enclosing slash delimiters.
Special characters
Quotation marks and special characters in names require
special consideration. René Descartes (with the special
character for the e-acute) is not equal to René
Descartes (with the HTML entity for the special character). A
straight single or double quotation mark (' or ") is not
the same as a curled opening or closing quotation mark (‘ or
“ or ’ or ”).
If you know the HTML entities for special characters, you may
use them, but you don’t need to use them because special
characters in your search terms are converted to HTML entities
before using them to search the HTML files.
You may search for either Halley’s comet, or enter the
HTML entity ’ for the right single quotation mark:
Halley’s comet.
Similarly, you may use the following HTML entities:
Texts are composed in HTML5 with US-ASCII encoding. Processing before searching removes comments, tags, and spaces including newlines, so you may not use search to find HTML tags or attribute values, such as the filenames of images.
Regular expressions
The phrase “regular expression” is computer jargon for a widely adopted syntax for defining search patterns. This syntax lets you declare alternatives, negatives, abstract character classes (such as digits, or space characters), unicode character properties, and sentence, line, or word boundaries (a.k.a. “anchors”). Regular expressions become an option for search terms when the normal searches are implemented using regular expressions, as in sharpgiving.com. See Pattern syntax for regular expressions. If you check the “Regular expression” option, we treat your complete “Terms to search for” as one regular expression, but you must leave off the enclosing slash delimiters.
Special characters
Quotation marks and special characters in names require special consideration. René Descartes (with the special character for the e-acute) is not equal to René Descartes (with the HTML entity for the special character). A straight single or double quotation mark (' or ") is not the same as a curled opening or closing quotation mark (‘ or “ or ’ or ”).
If you know the HTML entities for special characters, you may use them, but you don’t need to use them because special characters in your search terms are converted to HTML entities before using them to search the HTML files.
You may search for either Halley’s comet, or enter the HTML entity ’ for the right single quotation mark: Halley’s comet.
Similarly, you may use the following HTML entities: