Words and Phrases

To search for a phrase, use quotation marks around it, like this:

apple w/5 "fruit salad"

If a phrase contains a noise word, dtSearch will skip over the noise word when searching for it.  For example, a search for statue of liberty would retrieve any document containing the word statue, any intervening word, and the word liberty.

Punctuation inside of a search word is treated as a space.  Example: can't would be treated as a phrase consisting of two words: can and t.  1843(c)(8)(ii) would become 1843 c 8 ii (four words).  (To customize the way dtSearch handles punctuation in text, see Alphabet Customization.)