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Concept Operators

Concept Operators are used when you are specifying more than one search word or search element. The Concept Operator tells the search engine whether you mean that all of the words/elements must be present in the document for it to count as a match, or if any one word/element makes the document count as a match. The concept operators include AND, OR and NOT.

Exact Search

To perform a search for an exact phrase, you must place the word/phrase within quotation marks (“ ”).

Wildcards:

* * stands in for any number of characters (including 0).

A search for Fu* would find Fusion, Fugazi, Fuchsia, etc.

? ? stands in for any single character. More precise – and thus generally less helpful – than the * wildcard. A search for ?ar?et would find both carpet and target, but not Learjet.
{ } Allows you to specify a number of possible word fragments, separated by commans. A search for {gr,frag,deodor}rant would find documents that contained grant, fragrant, or deodorant.
[ ] Like { }, except brackets stand in for only one character at a time. A search for f[eao]ster would find documents that contained fester, faster, or foster.
- Allows you to place a range of characters within square brackets. Searching for A[C-H]50993 is the same as searching for A[DEFGH]50993.

If you use any wildcard other than ? or *, you must use either single or double quotation marks around the actual wildcard pattern. We would recommend that you use single quotation marks.