When you use simple syntax, the search engine implicitly interprets single words you enter as if they were preceded by the
MANY
modifier and the STEM
operator. By implicitly applying the MANY
modifier, the search engine calculates each document's score based on the word density it finds; the denser the occurrence of a word in a document, the higher the document's score.
< >
) are reserved for designating operators and modifiers. They are optional for AND
, OR
, and NOT
, but required in all other cases. To include a backslash (\) in a search, insert two backslashes for each backslash character. To search for "C:\bin\print," enter the following simple syntax:
The search engine also interprets words that are topic names as topics rather than as individual words when you use simple syntax. This means that if the text you enter contains a topic name, the query corresponding to that topic is used instead of the word itself.
Search terms with mixed case automatically become case-sensitive. For example, a query on
Apple
behaves as if you had specified <case>Apple
(which would find only the precise string Apple
), while a query on apple
finds all of the following: APPLE
, Apple
, apple
.A query all in upper case does not turn on case-sensitive searching. A query on
APPLE
finds all of the following: APPLE
, Apple
, apple
(as before).The CASE modifier has the same effect as in previous releases. When used, the case-sensitivity of the query is preserved. For example, if you want to search for the term "OCX" and want to find instances of "OCX" in upper case only, you could enter the following query:
Partial matches are not valid. For example, the search engine does not match the phrase "web server features" with the topic name "web-server;" it matches the topic name "web-server-features."