Equality Clauses

An equality clause searches a field for a value that matches a literal constant, or, for text fields, a pattern. The equals sign (=) is used to search for an exact field value. The right hand side must be a literal value. Example:

Name="John Smith"

This searches the Name field for objects that exactly match the string “John Smith”. The search is case-insensitive, so an object will match if its Name field is “john smith”, “JOHN SMITH”, etc.

For text fields, wildcards can be used to define patterns. For example:

Name="J* Sm?th"

This clause matches “John Smith”, “Joe Smyth”, etc.

Not equals is written by negating an equality clause with the keyword NOT. Example:

NOT Size=1024