Search Modifiers

Modifiers are combined with operators to change the standard behavior of an operator in some way. For example, you can use the CASE modifier with an operator to specify that you want to match the case of the search word. Modifiers are as follows:

Modifier Description
CASE Specifies a case-sensitive search:
<CASE>J[AVA, ava]

Searches for "JAVA" and "Java."

MANY Counts the density of words, stemmed variations, or phrases in a document and produces a relevance-ranked score for retrieved documents. Can be used with the following operators:
  • WORD
  • WILDCARD
  • STEM
  • PHRASE
  • SENTENCE
  • PARAGRAPH
<PARAGRAPH><MANY>javascript 
   <AND> vbscript

The MANY modifier cannot be used with the following:

  • AND
  • OR
  • ACCRUE
  • Relational operators
NOT Used to exclude documents that contain the specified word or phrase. Used only with the AND and OR operators.
java <AND> programming 
   <NOT> coffee
ORDER Used to specify that the search elements must occur on the same order in which they were specified in the query. Can be used with the following operators:
  • PARAGRAPH
  • SENTENCE
  • NEAR/N

Place the ORDER modifier before any operator:

<ORDER><PARAGRAPH>("server", 
   "java")