| home page | photograph category | date built | architect or builder | date photographed | location map | all by name | all by date |
The checkboxes determine what is searched.
The "architect" is the architect or builder, the "location" is the short text that appears above the photo in the individual pages and the "description" is the longer text that appears below the photo.
Searching on architect and/or location is quicker than searching on description.
The search phrase is split on whitespace into a list of terms, each of which is made lower case (so the matching is case insensitive). Each of the terms must individually be found in either the architect (if that is checked) or the location (if that is checked) or the description (if that is checked).
The locations and descriptions being checked are stripped of all punctuation. However the search phrase is considered a Perl regular expression, so it is not stripped of punctuation. So do not enter punctuation unless you are doing regular expression matching. For example, do not enter "King's" as a search phrase but instead "Kings". If you do not know the details about Perl regular expressions then do not worry because they include ordinary words.
Some examples of Perl regular expressions and their effect (do not include the quotation marks in the search text field!). "pu" matches any word that contains "pu", such as "pub" or "Corpus". "^pub" matches any word that starts with "pub" ("^" representing the beginning of a word) and "^pub$" matches "pub" exactly ("$" representing the end of a word). "*" matches any number of characters, so "^p*b$" matches "pub" and "plumb". "." matches exactly one character, so "^pu.$" matches "pub" and "pun". "?" says the previous character must oocur 0 or 1 times so "^pubs?$" matches "pub" and "pubs".
The pages have been set out so that certain queries have effectively already been answered, e.g. for the following specific groupings:
| home page | photograph category | date built | architect or builder | date photographed | location map | all by name | all by date |