Overview
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Overview
The Verity query language provides a rich language for writing queries that return relevant information. Queries can be composed to search full text only or full text in combination with field information. Simple syntax, such as words and phrases separated by commas, and more complex syntax involving operators and modifiers can be used.
This chapter provides an overview of the operators and modifiers that comprise the Verity query language. Material covered includes:
Special queries called topics are included as part of the Verity query language. Topics are discussed in Chapter 2, "Elements of Query Expressions".
Verity toolkit and server products include query parsers. For information about the available query parsers, see Appendix A.
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