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To effectively
use the Search feature, the following guidelines will be
helpfull:
- Queries
are not case sensitive.
- You
can search for any word except for words on the exception
list. When indexing an document, the following words, letters,
and numbers are ignored:
- To
use special characters in a query, (such as &, |, ^, #,
@, and $), enclose your query in quotation marks.
- Date
and time values are of the form yyyy/mm/dd hh:mm:ss or yyyy-mm-dd
hh:mm:ss. The first two characters of the year and the entire
time can be omitted. If you omit the first two characters
of the year, the date is interpreted as being between 1930
and 2029. A 3-digit millisecond value can be specified after
the seconds value. All dates and times are in Coordinated
Universal Time. For example, 1997/12/8 13:10:03:452
- You
can use the Boolean operators AND, OR, and NOT.
The
following table shows some examples of the use of Boolean
operators:
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To
search for
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Use
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Result
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| Two
terms in the same document |
red
and dog |
Documents
with both the words "red" and "dog" |
| Either
of two terms in a document |
red
or dog |
Documents
with the words "red" or "dog" |
| One
term without a second term |
red
and not dog |
Documents
with the word "red" but not "dog" |
| Two
terms that are close together in the same document |
red
near dog |
Documents
with the word "red" near the word "dog" |
| Either
of two terms and not two other terms if they are close
together |
red
or dog and not (black near cat) |
Documents
with the word "red" or "dog" and not the words "black"
and "cat" if they are within 50 words of each other |
- Use
quotation marks around the query phrase if it contains a
word that is a Boolean operator. For example, "horse and
rider" will be evaluated as a phrase, not as a Boolean expression.
- Boolean
operators are evaluated in the following order:
- To
search for a phrase, enclose the phrase in "double
quotes"
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