Search Features

Search features such as fuzzy searching, stemming, phonic searching, regular expressions, etc.

Remarks

Search terms may include the following special characters:

Character	Meaning
?	matches any character
*	matches any number of characters
%	fuzzy search
=	matches any digit
#	phonic search
~	stemming
&	synonym search
~~	numeric range
:	variable term weighting
##	regular expression searching

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

Search Requests

Topics

Topic	Description
Numeric Range Searching	A numeric range search is a search for any numbers that fall within a range.
Wildcards (* and ?)	A ? in a word matches any single character (including a Unicode character), and a * matches any number of characters.
Synonym searching	Synonym searching finds synonyms of a word in a search request.
Fuzzy Searching	Fuzzy searching will find a word even if it is misspelled.
Stemming	Stemming extends a search to cover grammatical variations on a word.
Regular Expression Searching	Regular expression searching provides a way to search for advanced combinations of characters.
Variable Term Weighting	Variable term weighting allows the weight of each search to be specified in the search request.