Searching Flashcards
dtSearch - AND
Returns documents with both terms
dtSearch - OR
Returns documents with one or the other term
dtSearch - AndAny
First term(s) required, terms after operator are optional
dtSearch - NOT
Returns documents that do not have the term
dtSearch - precedence (order) w/o parentheses
dtSearch evaluates OR expressions before AND expressions
dtSearch - precedence (order) w/ parentheses
Parentheses evaluated first
dtSearch - xfirstword
Marks the beginning of a file
dtSearch - xlastword
Marks the end of a file
dtSearch - fuzzy searching
return documents containing spelling variations of a specified term
dtSearch - %
the character used for fuzzy searches. The number of (%) used indicates how many characters in the search term dtSearch engine ignores when it runs the query. The position of the % indicates the number of characters from the beginning of the term that must match exactly with words in the result set. The following search strings illustrate how this character is used:
app%ly indicates that a matching word must begin with app and differ from apply by only one character.
a%%pply indicates that a matching word must begin with a and differ from apply by only two characters.
dtSearch - #
Phonetic searching. Add character to the front of words
dtSearch - ~
stemming - allowing grammatical variations of a root word
dtSearch - ?
Matches any single character
dtSearch - *
Matches any number of characters
dtSearch - W/N
Within N number of words (N as a number) - aka proximity searching
dtSearch - NOT W/N
excludes documents based on proximity. First word is required, second term/phrase must be at least N words away from first term (or not present at all)
dtSearch - PRE/N
Proximity searching, but first word needs to be found before the second word, and within N number of words
dtSearch - =
Numerical patterns. = will hit on any single digit. === could hit 123 or 999, etc.. Used for numerical pattern finding such as SSN
dtSearch - Phrases with Noise Words
dtSearch skips any noise words in a phrase. For example, it skips of in the search string Statue of Liberty and retrieves any documents that contains statue an intervening word, and liberty.
dtSearch - Words with Punctuation
Punctuation inside a word is treated as a space. For example, dtSearch treats the search term can’t as two words, can and t.
dtSearch - Numbers and Characters in Parenthesis
Unexpected results may be returned when numbers or characters in parenthesis are used in a dtSearch. For example, the search term 1843 (c)(8)(ii) is treated as four words.
