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Regular expression is a sequence of symbols and characters expressing a string or pattern to be searched for within a longer piece of text.

Search PDF Files With Regular Expressions – Generating Teasers

Recently I have had some questions on how it would be possible to display search results including two words from either side of the the search result. This is something we already have set up for our simple viewer. We have achieved this quite easily as our search functionality is built around a regular expression…

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March 22, 2012
PDF Search TextNo commentsKieran France

Search PDF Files With Regular Expressions – Searching With Regular Expressions

Recently our search code has undergone a major update to give you greater control over what text you can find. We have now made the search functionality capable of understanding regular expressions. When using the simpleviewer it is easy to activate this feature by selecting the option found under the advanced options menu (shown below)…

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August 31, 2011
SearchNo commentsKieran France

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