Argel,
Your question inspired me to try and hack the Kindle find, which resulted in a new article all about find on
Kindicted.com.
Here's an excerpt that speaks directly to your question:
Find Syntax for Documents (except PDF)
Right off the bat, the find command for documents does not have wildcards, grep syntax, etc. Multiple words can be entered separated by a space, as can e-mail addresses and web sites. All symbols are summarily ignored (and can even be in the middle of words) except for "." and "@", which are used for searching the aforementioned sites and addresses. Here are a few observations:
- Plurals are automatically included in search results.
- Common small words are ignored ("of", "and", "the", etc.).
- Searches are case-insensitive.
- Individual letters can be searched.
- All surrounding punctuation/symbols are highlighted in the search results, but cannot be specified in the search.
- Numbers can be searched - leading zeroes are relevant.
- Symbols between words (such as the "://" in "http://www") can be excluded entirely - the search will still work (provided the url does not continue on a new line after the "http://"). In order words "httpwww" is equivalent to "http://www".
Please keep in mind that these rules are only for searching documents. PDFs, Wikipedia, Google, and the Amazon store all have different search syntax.
- Kindict