Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.0 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual page 276

Using the Query Operators
Table 12-4 Query language operators (Continued)
Operator Description
equals (=) • Finds documents in which a
greater than (>) • Finds documents in which a
greater than or • Finds documents in which a
equal to (>=)
less than (<) • Finds documents in which a
less than or equal • Finds documents in which a
to (<=)
• Finds documents in which a string in
<MATCHES>
• Ignores documents that contain
• Does not rank documents for
• Finds documents that contain the
<NEAR>
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document field matches a specific
date or numeric value
document field is greater than a
specific date or numeric value.
document field is greater than or
equal to a specific date or numeric
value.
document field is less than a specific
date or numeric value.
document field is less than or equal
to a specific date or numeric value.
a document field matches the
character string you specify.
partial matches.
relevance.
specified words. The closer the terms
are to each other in the document, the
higher the document's score.
Examples
Created = 6-30-96
Finds documents created on June 30, 1996.
Created > 6-30-96
Finds documents created after June 30,
1996.
Created >= 6-30-96
Finds documents created on or after June
30, 1996.
Created < 6-30-96
Finds documents created before June 30,
1996.
Created <= 6-30-96
Finds documents created on or before June
30, 1996.
<MATCHES> employee
Finds documents containing employee or
any of its stemmed variants such as
employees.
stock <NEAR> purchase
Finds any document containing both stock
and purchase, but gives a higher score to a
document that has stock purchase than to
one that has purchase supplies and stock up.