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| How
to use the new Full Text Search Engine (1) Enter your search criteria keywords above the "Full Text Search" button -- then click it. The engine has been set to ignore case. You'll get the same result if you enter search criteria in UPPER, lower, or MiXEd case. |
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| Basic Search Operators | ||
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| Operator | Effect | Examples |
| AND | AND Searches for documents containing both words. | Verity AND Allaire |
| OR | OR Searches for documents containing either word. | Verity OR Allaire |
| NOT | NOT Eliminates documents containing the word. | Verity NOT Allaire |
| STEM | STEM Expands the search to include the word you enter and its variations. The STEM operator is automatically implied in any SIMPLE query (the above three examples are SIMPLE searches). On the other hand for example, the EXPLICIT query expression "<STEM>believe" yields matches such as, "believe," "believing," "believer". | |
| Proximity Operators | ||
| Operator | Description | |
| NEAR | NEAR Selects documents containing specified search terms. The closer the search terms are to one another in a document, the higher the document's score. The document with the smallest possible region containing all search terms always receives the highest score. Documents whose search terms are not within 1000 words of each other are not selected. | |
| NEAR/N | NEAR/N Selects documents containing
two or more search terms within N number of words of each other, where
N is an integer between 1 and 1024 where NEAR/1 searches for two words
that are next to each other. The closer the search terms are within
a document, the higher the document's score. You can specify multiple search terms using multiple instances of NEAR/N as long as the value of N is the same: "commute <NEAR/10> bicycle <NEAR/10> train" |
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| PARAGRAPH | PARAGRAPH Selects documents that include
all of the words you specify within the same paragraph. Examples: "mission <PARAGRAPH> bicycle <PARAGRAPH> train" "<PARAGRAPH> (mission, bicycle)" |
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| PHRASE | PHRASE Selects documents that include
a phrase you specify. A phrase is a grouping of two or more words that
occur in a specific order. Examples of phrases: "<PHRASE> (mission, bicycle)" "mission bicycle" |
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| SENTENCE | SENTENCE Selects documents that include
all of the words you specify within the same sentence. Examples: "jazz <SENTENCE> musician" "<SENTENCE> (jazz, musician)" |
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| Quotation Marks and Parentheses | ||
| Character | Purpose | Examples |
| (Parentheses) | Determines how ANDs and ORs are treated. Words within parentheses are considered a unit, and are considered first. | "Allaire OR (Cold AND Fusion)" "Fusion AND (Cold NOT Hot)" |
| "Quotation Marks" | Quoted words or phrases are searched for literally. Useful when you want to search for the actual words and or or. | "Simple AND Explicit" Allaire AND "not installed" |
| Verity Wildcards | ||
| Wildcard | Purpose | |
| * | Asterisk. Specifies zero or more aplhanumeric characters. A search for Fu* will find Fusion, Fugazi, and Fuchsia. | |
| ? | Question. Stands in for any single character. More precise--and thus generally less helpful--than the * wildcard. A search for ?ar?et will find both carpet and target, but not Learjet. | |
| { } | Curly braces. Specifies one of each pattern separated by a comma, as in "hoist{s,ing,ed}" which locates hoists, hoisting, and hoisted. Curly braces indicate an implied AND. | |
| [ ] | Square brackets. Specifies one of any character in a set, as in "sl[iau]m" which locates slim, slam, and slum. Square brackets indicate an implied OR. | |
| ^ | Caret. Specifies one of any character not in a set, as in "sl[^ia]m" which locates slum, but not slim, or slam. | |
| - | Hyphen. Specifies a range of characters in a set, as in "c[a-r]t" which locates every word beginning with "c," ending with "t," and containing any letter from "a" to "r". | |
