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Table 12-3 Deciding which operator to use
Type of Search
Finding words or phrases in
specific document fields or in
specific locations in the field.
Finding two or more words in a
document.
The following table describes some commonly used operators and provides
examples of how to use each one. All are relevance ranked except where explicitly
noted.
Table 12-4 Query language operators
Operator Description
• Adds mandatory criteria to the
AND
• Finds documents that have all of the
• Finds documents containing the
<CONTAINS>
• You can use wildcards. Only
• Does not rank documents for
• Finds documents in which a
<ENDS>
• Does not rank documents for
Valid Operators
• <STARTS>
• <CONTAINS>
• <ENDS>
• is equal to (=)
• AND
• <NEAR/1>
search.
specified words.
specified words in a document field.
The words must be in the exact same
sequential and contiguous order.
alphanumeric values.
relevance.
document field ends with a certain
string of characters.
relevance.
Examples
Title <STARTS> Help
Finds documents with titles that
start with Help.
specifications AND review
Finds documents that contain both
specifications and review.
Examples
Antarctica AND mountain climb
Finds only documents containing both
Antarctica and mountain climb plus all the
stemmed variants, such as mountain
climbing.
Title <CONTAINS> higher profit
Finds documents containing the phrase
higher profit in the title. Ignores documents
with profits higher in the title.
Title <ENDS> draft
Finds documents with titles ending in draft.
Chapter 12
Using the Query Operators
Using Search 275