
Please enter your search keywords in the form below.
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.
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