Search features such as fuzzy searching, stemming, phonic searching, regular expressions, etc.
Remarks
Search terms may include the following special characters:
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Character |
Meaning |
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? |
matches any character |
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* |
matches any number of characters |
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% | |
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= |
matches any digit |
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# |
phonic search |
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~ | |
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& | |
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~~ | |
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: | |
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## |
All of these special characters, except for ? and *, can be modified using the Options object. You can also enable search features for an entire search request through search flags in the search job. For more information, see Redefining Search Operators.
Group
Topics
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Topic |
Description |
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A numeric range search is a search for any numbers that fall within a range. | |
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A ? in a word matches any single character (including a Unicode character), and a * matches any number of characters. | |
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Synonym searching finds synonyms of a word in a search request. | |
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Fuzzy searching will find a word even if it is misspelled. | |
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Stemming extends a search to cover grammatical variations on a word. | |
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Regular expression searching provides a way to search for advanced combinations of characters. | |
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Variable term weighting allows the weight of each search to be specified in the search request. |