Searching

This page tells you how to search the documentation on this site. See:

• Basic searches
• Searching for a phrase
• Using wildcards
• Boolean searches.

Basic searches

To search the documentation on this site, enter your search term in the Search for field above the Contents tab:

Then ensure you are searching in the correct part of the site:

• All documents searches the content of all documents
• Current document searches only the document you are reading
• Titles of all documents searches only within the main titles of documents, such as ARM926EJ-S Technical Reference Manual
• Numbers of all documents searches the numbers of documents, such as ARM DUI 0255G (see also Navigating with the Documents by number tab)
• Current set of documents searches only the set of documents you are reading:
  • if you are already reading a document, this searches one level up from your document
  • otherwise, this searches all documents beneath the currently selected entry in the Contents
• Current search scope searches only the current search scope (see Using search scopes).

To start the search, either click the SEARCH button or press Return.

The results of the search appear in the Search Results tab  on the left.

If you enter multiple words, the search results are pages containing all of the words you typed.

Searching for a phrase

To search for a phrase, surround it with double quotes. For example:
"my phrase" .

Using wildcards

You can use two wildcards in your searches:

• a question mark “?” matches any single character, so “do?” matches the word “dog”, but not the words “do” or “dogs”
• an asterisk “*” matches zero or more characters, so “do*” matches the words “do”, “dog”, and “dogs”.

You cannot start a search word with a wildcard. If you do this the word is ignored, so if it is the only search term no results are returned.

Boolean searches

You can use the words “AND”, “OR”, and “NOT” to construct boolean searches.

These operators bind from left to right.