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Question 1

dtSearch - AND

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Returns documents with both terms

Question 2

dtSearch - OR

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Returns documents with one or the other term

Question 3

dtSearch - AndAny

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First term(s) required, terms after operator are optional

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dtSearch - NOT

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Returns documents that do not have the term

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dtSearch - precedence (order) w/o parentheses

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dtSearch evaluates OR expressions before AND expressions

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dtSearch - precedence (order) w/ parentheses

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Parentheses evaluated first

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dtSearch - xfirstword

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Marks the beginning of a file

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dtSearch - xlastword

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Marks the end of a file

Question 9

dtSearch - fuzzy searching

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return documents containing spelling variations of a specified term

Question 10

dtSearch - %

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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.

Question 11

dtSearch - #

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Phonetic searching. Add character to the front of words

Question 12

dtSearch - ~

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stemming - allowing grammatical variations of a root word

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dtSearch - ?

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Matches any single character

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dtSearch - *

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Matches any number of characters

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dtSearch - W/N

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Within N number of words (N as a number) - aka proximity searching

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dtSearch - NOT W/N

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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)

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dtSearch - PRE/N

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Proximity searching, but first word needs to be found before the second word, and within N number of words

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dtSearch - =

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Numerical patterns. = will hit on any single digit. === could hit 123 or 999, etc.. Used for numerical pattern finding such as SSN

Question 19

dtSearch - Phrases with Noise Words

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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.

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dtSearch - Words with Punctuation

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Punctuation inside a word is treated as a space. For example, dtSearch treats the search term can’t as two words, can and t.

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dtSearch - Numbers and Characters in Parenthesis

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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.