Re: NSPredicate: To be, or not to be

FROM : stephen joseph butler
DATE : Sun Jun 01 17:24:55 2008

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann
<<email_removed>> wrote:
> When I use an NSMetadataQuery with the NSPredicate <kMDItemTextContent LIKE
> "To be, or not to be;"> it seems to find all documents which contain these
> words in any order; and as they are kind of common, it finds 23363 files.
>
> Not quite what I intended.
> Actually I am looking for those documents which contain this string exactly
> as written (e.g. Shakespeare/Plays/Hamlet/3.1.rtf ).


I believe you want "contains", not "like".