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This function enables you to search for words, expressions or exact phrases within the actual text of a document. Boolean and proximity search operators, phrase searching, nesting and stemming can be used in this search field.

Boolean Operators

OR		Returns documents containing either of the terms
		Example: coffee OR cacao

AND		Returns documents containing both terms
		Example: beer AND wine

NOT		Excludes documents containing the term following NOT
		Example: copper NOT steel

Proximity Search Operators

The following proximity search operators can be used with words, exact phrases and nested Boolean queries.

NEARN		Returns documents in which the first term is within N words of the second term. By default N is 5 words.
		Example: Smuggling NEAR3 tobacco
		This case searches for the term smuggling within 3 words of tobacco.

DNEARN		Returns documents in which the first term is within N words of the second term and in the indicated order.
		Example: cinnamon DNEAR4 cocoa
		This case searches for the term cinnamon within 4 words of cocoa and in the specified order.

BEFORE		Returns documents in which the first term comes before the second term
		Example: railway BEFORE locomotives

AFTER		Returns documents in which the first term comes after the second term
		Example: form AFTER customs

Wildcards

The following wildcards are available to replace one or many characters within a word. The asterisk (*) is used to replace zero, one or more characters. The question mark (?) is used to replace one character.

Examples:
labo?r
will retrieve documents containing the term labour or labor

engin*
will retrieve documents containing the terms engine or engineering or engineered, etc.

Stemming

Stemming is automatically applied by the search engine and allows for the retrieval of words that have a common stem.

Examples:
Fish
will retrieve fish, fisher, fishing etc. It is not necessary to write "fish" OR "fisher" OR "fishing".

Phrases

Exact phrases can be searched for by using quotation marks (" ").

Examples:
"tariff schedules"
will retrieve documents containing the exact term tariff schedules

Note: The application will automatically search for all documents containing the terms tariff and schedules if no quotation marks are used.