FIND space

[masster]

Hi
It seems there is a bug in the program when I try to find, for instance, "[ " meaning left square parenthesis, followed by one space (without quotes).
The results are only showing the left square parenthesis character, disregarding the space after it.
What is happening?

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello,

This seems to be working as expected in the current release with the default settings:

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And another example, after removing the space character from a line:

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There are no settings which should have an impact on this, so I expect that the issue is version related, or that your document itself is using a different character (perhaps "tab" characters instead or spaces). Please check that your document is actually using space characters, by editing one instance you can find manually, removing the whitespace character that exists, and replace it with a space. Then see if the search output shows the new instance.

If that does not help, please ensure that you are fully up to date, and running build 396 of our software.

Kind regards,

[masster]

I didn't find anywhere in the Manual the necessity of inserting the text I am looking for between quotes...

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]

Hello,

Indeed it is not mentioned in the manuals, however, this is the case with the vast majority of search functions across modern apps. Blank characters are usually ignored (or used as a delimiter between terms), and in most cases, enveloping the string in quotes is the only way to ensure they are included as part of the process.
This allows for you to write out a set of terms like:

Steve went to the store

Without getting an individual result for every single "space" character in the document, but you will get individual results for every instance of "Steve", "Went", "To", "The", and "store". If you need that exact phrase, you can either use the "advanced" option, and put the same text into the "this exact string" search, or you can simply put quotation marks around the string in the simple search area.

Kind regards,