The Verity query language includes modifiers that you can use with the operators to refine a search. The modifiers are described in Table 5-6.
Modifier name |
Description |
Works with these operators |
Example |
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case |
Performs case-sensitive searches. If you enter search terms in mixed case, the search is automatically case sensitive. |
wildcard word |
|
many |
Counts the number of times that a word, stemmed word, or phrase occurs in a document. Relevance-ranks the document according to its density. |
paragraph phrase sentence stem word wildcard |
|
not |
Excludes documents that contain the items for which the query is searching. |
and or |
|
order |
Specifies that the items in the documents occur in the same order in which they appear in the query. Always place the order modifier just before the operator |
near/n paragraph sentence |
Simple syntax: Explicit syntax: |