Whether you are a programming expert or novice, this activity has been designed to teach you how to use regex to perform a text search in SEC Filings. Run the cells in this Notebook to perform an exact phrase search across the WRDS SEC database. Learn how to filter by company and form type. You can also expand your search to multiple companies.

We provide an option for downloading full text files of the search results to your WRDS Notebook directory. After becoming comfortable with this simple search, you may modify the sample code to build more complex searches.

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