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Old 02-12-2010, 01:20 PM   #3
Argel
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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc View Post
I don't know of any documented ways, but in many computer languages the * is used for wildcard searches - representing any character or any number of characters. Don't have my Kindle with me, but you might try noti* and see what happens.
Many thanks for the suggestion. I should have said that I'd already tried '*' as a wild card without success. Nor can I see any setting for 'find part of a word'.

If true, it's such a pity because it severely reduces the utility of the search for no good reason. If you're not going to offer an option then sticking at 'search for words containing' is far more useful than 'search for whole word' and arguably easier to program.
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