- Examiners can choose the following operators from dropdown.
- "AND" will be considered as the default operator.
- The NEAR operator searches for terms that are next to each other (distance=0)
- The ADJ operator is similar to the NEAR operator, except it requires matching documents have terms in the same order as specified in the expression
Ex: cisco ADJ router will become ONEAR(cisco, router)
- WITH Operator will search for terms within a distance of 15.
Ex: cisco WITH router will become NEAR(cisco, router, distance=15)
- SAME Operator will search for the terms within a distance of 200.
Ex: cisco SAME router will become NEAR(cisco, router, distance=200)
- Exact match is enabled for hypen & period character.
Ex: "in-memory"
- '$' will be interpreted as any number of characters and hence will be converted to '*'.
Ex: config$ will become config*
- '$n' will be interpreted as 'n' number of characters and will be converted to [a-zA-Z0-9]{0,n}.
Ex: config$5 will become config[a-zA-Z0-9]{0,5}
- '~' if used in search text will always have a number following the '~' and will be interpreted as 'FUZZY' of the preceding string with a similarity of the following number.
Ex: cisco~4 will become FUZZY(cisco, similarity=4)
- '^' if used in search text will always have a number following '^' and this number will be used as 'BOOST' value for the string preceding '^'.
Ex: cisco^100 will become TERM(cisco, BOOST=100)
- '|' if used in search text will be interpreted as 'OR' operator.
Ex: cisco|router will become OR(cisco, router)
- Date should always be of either 'yyyymmdd' or 'yyyy' format. 'yyyymmdd' format should always be preceded by any of '@RLAD', '@AD', '@PD', '@FD', '@RLFD' and 'yyyy' format should always be preceded by any of '@AY', '@PY', '@FY'.
Ex: @AD>19961011
- Phrases should be enclosed within double quotes.
Ex: "cisco systems"