The current search is intended to be an easy, user friendly way of finding documents that aren't obvious on the homepage. This is a pretty new feature for our site, so if you find any errors or can't find something, please Contact Us.
To do a basic search, just type what you're looking for and press the "Search" button. For instance to find the desert therapy site type Desert Therapy and press the submit button.
You also have the option of doing more advanced searches by using the words AND, NOT, and OR. For instance if you wanted to find information about volcanoes, but didn't want to see Dialogue for Kids information, you could type Volcano Not Dialogue for kids
Another advanced option is wildcard characters. The characters currently supported are:
? Matches any single alphanumeric character
* Matches zero or more alphanumeric charaters
[] Matches one of the characters contained between the brackets
^ When used inside square brackets, indicates that a match should be made for any character nor in the brackets.
- Indicates a range of characters
| Pattern | Match |
|---|---|
| sea? | Matches seas and seat but not sea |
| sea* | Matches seas and seat but also sea, search, seam, and any other combination starting with sea. |
| sea[st] | Matches seas and seat but not sea, search, seam, or search |
| sea[^st] | Matches seam and seal but not seas, or seat |
| sea[a-z] | Matches every possible combination of sea followed by a single letter including: seas, seat, seam, and seal. |