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Regular expressions
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| ^string | Matches the text at the beginning of the string |
| string$ | Matches the text at the end of the string |
| . | Matches any single character (including special characters) |
| a* | Matches the sequence of zero or more of the specified character |
| a+ | Matches the sequence of one or more of the specified character |
| a? | Matches zero or one occurrence of the specified character |
| abc|def | Matches either one of the specified strings |
| [abc] | Matches any one of the specified characters |
Boolean Search
The Princeton Geniza Project database uses a boolean full-text search. This type of search allows users to combine keywords with operators to refine searches. Possible operators and examples of their use:
| מולאנא מולאי | Search for rows that contain either of two words by simply typing them consecutively. In this case, the search will find documents that contain either מולאי or מולאנא. |
| כתאבי +מולאי+ | Use a + sign before word to search for rows that contain all of them (in this case the words כתאבי and מולאי) |
| כתאבי AND מולאי כתאבי OR מולאי | The keyword AND indicates that both search terms must be present in the results. OR matches either search term. |
| כתאב –כתאבה | Use a - sign to exclude a term from your results (in this case, the search will include כתאב but exclude כתאבה) |
| *כתאב ?כתאב |
Use an asterisk or a question mark as a wildcard. An asterix matches any number of characters. A question mark matches any single character |
T-S K6.173
List of 28 people, some of whom are known to have been active in the middle of the 11th century, including Abū Isḥaq b. Ḥujayj, Abū Naṣr b. Ṣaghīr and Dosā b. al-Lādhiqī. Other names (some quite unusual) include: the Nasis Abū l-Ṭayyib and Abū l-Ḥasan; Ibn Furāt; Ibn Naḥum; Ibn Zaffān; Ibn Azhar; the sons of ʿAllān; Ibn Abū Ṭarbaq(?); Ibn Shuʿayb; Ibn Warmāj(?); Ibn Natan; Ibn al-ʿIjla; Ibn al-ʿIjl; Abū l-Khayr b. Khayṭ(?) al-Barrāda(?); the sons of al-Bahūdī; Ibn al-Papa; Ibn al-Arjawānī; Ibn al-Baghal ("son of the mule"). This list is written on a bifolium; the other pages contain a sermon using imagery of a “shepherd of flesh and blood” and drawing comparisons to God as the shepherd of Israel. The list and the sermon are in different hands. (Information in part from GRU catalogue via FGP.)
Library: CUL
Type: List or table
