Specifications

Chapter 16: DigiBase 305
Search Modifiers
Certain fields have small pop-up menus containing
modifiers, which limit the search criteria
entered in the field.
Modifiers include:
• Equal to (=)
• Not Equal to ()
• Less Than (<)
• Greater Than (>)
• Less Than or Equal to (<=)
• Greater Than or Equal To (>=)
• Range (<…>)
About Range-Limited When enabled, a second
search field is added so that a range of two values
can be entered (such as two dates). Pro Tools finds
all items that fall between or are equal to those two
values.
Wildcard Characters (* and ?)
An asterisk (*) can be entered at the beginning or
end of a text entry when you want to perform wild-
card searches. For example, if you want to find all
files with a name that ends with scratch, you could
enter *scratch in the Search field. This finds files
with names such as vocal.scratch, and
dialog2.scratch.
A question mark (?) can be used for single-charac-
ter wildcards. For example, a search on f?ee finds
free, and flee. A similar search on f*ee finds
frendlee, flippee, flee, free, and so on.
OR Searches
The Plus (+) and Minus (–) buttons add and delete
OR rows to find results that match the criteria ei-
ther in the top row or the additional rows.
To add and use OR rows in a search:
1 Click the (+) button to add an OR row identical
to the upper row, but with no entries in the
search fields.
2 To add an additional OR row, click the Plus (+)
button again. (An empty OR row has no effect
on the search.)
3 Enter search criteria.
For example, to find all files named either Dog or
Bark:
• Type Dog in the first File Name field.
• Add an OR row.
• Type Bark in the second File Name field.
4 Click Search.
To remove OR rows:
 Click the Minus (–) button to delete the bottom
OR row.
AND Searches
If you enter two or more words in a text field,
Pro Tools finds files that contain all of those
words. For example, if you type Dog Bark, only
files that contain both the words Dog and Bark are
found.
Quotations Marks for Text
Strings
Text enclosed in quotation marks is searched as
one text string. For example, if you type “Dog
Bark” (with quotes), only items with Dog Bark
anywhere in the File Name are considered a match.