Using Wildcards - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.0 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Using the Query Operators
Table 12-4 Query language operators (Continued)
Operator Description
• Finds documents in which part or all
<SUBSTRING>
• Similar to <MATCHES>, but can
• Does not work with wildcards.
• Does not rank documents for
• Finds documents that contain the
<WILDCARD>
• Some characters, such as * and ?,
Finds documents that contain the
<WORD>
specified word.

Using Wildcards

You can use wildcards to obtain special results. For example, you can find
documents that contain words that have similar spellings but are not stemmed
variants. For example, plan stems into plans and planning, but not plane or planet.
With wildcards, you can find all of these words.
Only the * and ? wildcard charcters are supported. They automatically indicate a
wildcard-based search, and do not require you to use the
part of the expression.
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of a string in a document field
matches the character string you
specify.
match on a partial string.
relevance.
wildcard characters in the search
string. You can use this to get words
that have some similar spellings but
which would not be found by
stemming the word.
automatically indicate a
wildcard-based search, so you don't
have to include the word
.
<WILDCARD>
Examples
<SUBSTRING> employ
Finds documents that can match on all or
part of employ, so it can succeed with ploy.
<WILDCARD> plan*
• Finds documents that contain plan,
plane, and planet as well as any word
that begins with plan, such as planned,
plans, and planetopolis.
• See the next section for more details
and examples.
<WORD> theme
Finds documents that contain theme,
thematic, themes, and other words that stem
from theme.
<WILDCARD>
operator as