[Summary-Talk] Re: Summary-talk digest V1 #1125

[Bill Taggart <postmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jason,

I've figured out how to use a report filter to "include" only the words
in a Reports Filter list.

The Searching Within Reports discussion in the How To section of the
Manual states that to exclude words "a tilde (~) must be the first
character of the first string and the single quote (') must be the
second character." The first three terms in my filter are

~'of
the
and
etc.

(That's a straight rather than curly quote character.)

When I used this filter to customize the Search Words report , only the
words in the filter were included. I have limited knowledge of Regular
Expressions from BBEdit. I obviously don't know enough to set this up.
What is the appropriate designation for excluding specific words from
the Name column?

Thanks, Bill

On May 14, 2005, at 2:30 AM, Summary-talk digest wrote:

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> Summary-talk digest      Saturday, May 14 2005      Volume 01 : Number 
> 1125
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> [Summary-Talk] Filtering Search Words
> Re: [Summary-Talk] Filtering Search Words
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> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 06:48:04 -0700
> From: Bill Taggart <postmaster@the-intuitive-self.org>
> Subject: [Summary-Talk] Filtering Search Words
>
> I'm running a trial version of SP Lite on a Mac (OS X 10.3.8).
>
> I would like to filter out (exclude) words such as definite articles
> (the, an, etc.) from the Search Word report. From my reading of the
> "Filtering" and "Report Filters" Configuration settings, neither
> appears to be appropriate.
>
> Is there a way these words can be excluded?
>
> Thanks, Bill
>
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> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 10:57:16 -0400
> From: Jason Linhart <jason@summary.net>
> Subject: Re: [Summary-Talk] Filtering Search Words
>
> This is fairly easy to do in the Search Words report, but depending on
> exactly what you are trying to do won't work for the Search Phrases 
> report.
>
> In the Search Words report, you can use Report Filters to eliminate
> words you are not interested. Set one of the Report Filters, for 
> example
> "User filter one" on the Report Filters configuration page, to a list 
> of
> words that you don't want to appear. Then reconfigure the Search Words
> report, the wrench icon at the top of the report, to filter Name on 
> User
> One List.
>
> You could eliminate any phrase that included a short word from the
> Search Phrases report using a similar approach. But what I think is
> probably the best thing to do, delete the short words and then combine
> the phrases with others that never contained the short words, is not
> possible in Summary. I will add that as a wish list item.
>
> Jason
>
>
> Bill Taggart wrote:
>>
>> I would like to filter out (exclude) words such as definite articles
>> (the, an, etc.) from the Search Word report. From my reading of the
>> "Filtering" and "Report Filters" Configuration settings, neither
>> appears to be appropriate.
>
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