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Positional operators ‘These operators specify the loc PHRASE FAR FOLLOW CLOSE FOLLOW . FIELDS 1N PREFERRED ESPIN FIELDS LABEL FILENAME IN PARAS Vv NEAR BY “ Metadata METAONLY Non-Metadata BopYONLY n ofeach of your search terms in rel 1 to each other within a document. ‘Te find words which occur next rermally. Tn ISYS search syntax, leach other as a phrase, just type the words as you would ere is no need to enclose phrases in quotes. “The retrieved documents must contain both terms, anc the second term must follow the appearance ofthe first. The second term can be anywhere inthe document as long as i ‘Secure after the fist ‘The retrieved documents must contain both search terms occurring in pars. That is, the second term must immediately follow the frst if document is to be retrieved, without 9 Fepeates occurrence ofthe first term. Ifthe firs term occurs multiple times before the Ssecane term, then I isthe inner-most pair whichis selectec The retrieved documents must contain the first term in a paragraph beginning with the second. If Named Sections have been created, a pop-up Ist may appear when you use this function, Select the desired Named Section from the Ist to add it to the search, Far mare Information about Named Sections, see Named Sections. Example: SMITH IN AUTHOR. “The retrieved documents wil contain the frst search term specified, and it may or may not ‘occur in'@ paragraph beginning witn the secone term, However, any instances where the first term does occur in the paragraph deginning with the second term will be considered ‘more relevant, Example: SMITH ESPIN AUTHOR, finds Smith anywhere, but gives preference to those occurrences where Smith isthe author Retrieved documents must contain a paragraph beginning with the specified search term, for example LABEL ABSTRACT Retrieved documents must contain the following subexpression occuring in the file name (and document file name indexing must be enabled inthe index configuration). For ‘example, FILENAME SHUTTLE, Both search terms must occur within the spacified number of paragraphs of each other Placing @ number between the lines Indicates the number of peragraphs separating each term. + No number between the \\ means the paragraphs must be consecutive, “+ Single number (e.g. \S\). Search terms must occur within § paragraphs of each other + Number separated by comma (e.g. \S,t0\). The second search term must appear within 5 fo 10 paragraphs ofthe frst + Negative numbers (@-9.\-5, +10\) indicate the paragraghs may begin before the ‘appearance of the term. That is the second term may appear up to paragraphs Defore and up to 10 after the fist, Both search terms must appear within the same paragraph. The order of appearance within the paregraph Is not relevant. Placing @ number between the lines indicates the number of words separating phrases. + Single number (e.9, /5/) (this can also be written as W/5). The two search terms ‘must appear within five words of each other. Order of appearance is nat relevant, + Number separated by comma (e.g. /5,10/). The search terms must appear In no fewer than 5 wards and nor more ban 10 words of each other, + Negative numbers (6.9, /-5, +10/), The search terms may appear from 5 words. before to 10 words after each other ‘The following sub-expression may only occur within the metadata portion of the document, for example "CAT AND METAONLY (DOG OR LION)", Searching only within metadata not ‘only provides for highly accurate queries, but can also provide substantial performance benefit if the search term has mary undesired occurrences in the non-meta portion of the document. Similar to METAONLY, b he following subexpression must not occur in the metadata,

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