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Starting Search
To start a search, click the 'Search' button. Once clicked, several things will change as you go into searchmode. The list box will clear and new options will appear on the lower left. In addition you can select any entry from the past just before you start a search and this past entry will be ready for searching. If you want to search something else click 'Clear' and the boxes will be cleared. Total search results will be displayed to the left of the 'Clear' button.
Uses of search:
Search has many uses. You can search numbers to see whether they have won before. You can also search out all the draws from a certain year or anything else you may think of.
A) Search by Date
Searching by date always seeks out an exact date match. For example, you may enter 03/22/98. Click 'Search' and any draw matching 03/22/98 from the database will show up in the list box below. If you omit any one of these numbers, you will not receive a result.
B) Search by Numbers
Searching by numbers always seeks out an exact number match. For example, you may enter 2,2,2,2 from a pick 4 draw. Click search and any draw matching the numbers 2,2,2,2 exactly from the database will show up in the list box below. If you leave any one of these number boxes blank, you will not receive a result; your search will only return exact matches.
C) Search by Any Match
Searching by any match lets you search by date, numbers, or both without being exact. What this means is you can search the database by month, day, or year, or any combination of these dates. It also enables you to search for entries containing only a certain number or combination of numbers. You can also search by date and numbers or with any combination of both. Below are several search techniques to give you an idea of how this powerful feature works. For the examples we will use a 6/49 lottery.
Numbers:
Entering 2,2,2,2,2,2/2 will return all entries containing the number two in any position. Entering just the first number with a 2 and leaving the rest blank will return only entries beginning with 2. Entering just the bonus number with 49 will return all entries containing 49 as a bonus. Entering 5 in the 3rd entry box will return all past draws containing a 5 in the third position. Entering the second position with a 14 and the sixth position with a 38 will return all entries containing these numbers in those positions.
Dates:
Entering just the month with a 4 will return just the draws entered in the 4th month. The same search, but adding 1998 as the year, will return all entries made in the 4th month of that year. To search for all entries in the year 1998, just fill in the year with 1998 leaving all other boxes blank.
Numbers & Dates:
You can also intertwine the examples above by entering numbers and dates. One example would be to get all the entries in 1998 that have a 33 as a bonus number. So you would enter 1998 in the year and 33 in the bonus number position.
D) Save and Print Search Results
Printing and saving your results are two additional options available to you when you have results showing.
Printing results:
Click 'Print' to print your results. You can also just print certain results by highlighting the ones you want and right clicking the 'Print' button.
Saving results:
You can save the results from any of the three search patterns. If you want, you can turn your result file into a primary file. For example, say you used Any Match to search for all the draws in 1999 and want to start a new file with only entries from that year. You would click 'Save' and the file would be saved as '*.sra', 'a' specifying that these are the results from Any Match. Leave search mode by clicking the 'Finished' button then you would open the '*.sra' file. Now right click the 'Open/New' button and use 'Save As' to save the file using an '*.llp' extension.
Extensions:
· Date results are saved with an '*.srd' extension.
· Number results are saved with an '*.srn' extension.
· Any Match results are saved with an '*.sra' extension.
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