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| Example Query |
Explanation |
| "May 19" |
Phrase operator. Using the phrase operator can reduce spurious
results by requiring that the component words appear consecutively and
in the order specified. Note that intervening punctuation, HTML tags etc
are ignored. |
| t:solar |
Metadata search This query attempts to locate documents containing
the word solar within metadata fields corresponding to the metadata
class t (ie. document title.) |
| [nuclear atomic] reactor |
Dysjunction operator. A full answer to this query will include
the word reactor and one or more of nuclear or atomic.
The square brackets achieve a similar effect to the OR operator
in a Boolean language. |
| Kennett !Jeff |
Negation operator. A full answer to this query will include
the word Kennett but no occurrence of the word Jeff. Unlike
the mandatory exclusion operator (see below), (partial) results presented
in subsequent tiers may contain the word Jeff. |
| Kennett -Jeff |
Mandatory exclusion operator. A full answer to this query will
include the word Kennett but no occurrence of the word Jeff.
Unlike the negation operator (see above), no results will contain the
word Jeff in the indexable part of the text. The partial results
are those which satisfy the mandatory constraint (no Jeff) but
which do not contain Kennett. This is similar to the NOT
operator in a Boolean language. |
| Kennett +Jeff |
Mandatory inclusion operator. A full answer to this query will
include the words Kennett and Jeff. Every result will contain
the word Jeff. |
| `George Bush` |
Near (proximity) operator. The near operator (backquotes) requires
that the component words appear, in any order, within 15 words of each
other. The example shown will match "George Dubya Bush" and
"Bush, George" |
| econ* |
Truncation operator. This example pattern matches all words
starting with econ, such as economomy and economical.
Be careful, there are almost always more matching words than you expect. |
| *fat* |
Truncation operator. This example pattern matches all words
containing the string fat, such as fat and grandfather.
The truncation operator can appear at the left, at the right or both,
but NOT in the middle of the string. |
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Last Updated: Thursday, 20 May 2004
