User Guide

292 Chapter 15 Indexing and Searching Data
The following table describes the proximity operators:
Relational operators
Relational operators search document fields that you defined in the collection.
Documents containing specified field values are returned. Documents retrieved
using relational operators are not ranked by relevance, and you cannot use the
MANY modifier with relational operators.
Operator Description
NEAR Selects documents containing specified search terms. The closer the
search terms are to one another within a document, the higher the
document’s score. The document with the smallest possible region
containing all search terms always receives the highest score.
Documents whose search terms are not within 1000 words of each
other are not selected.
NEAR/N Selects documents containing two or more search terms within N
number of words of each other, where N is an integer between 1 and
1024. NEAR/1 searches for two words that are next to each other.
The closer the search terms are within a document, the higher the
document’s score.
You can specify multiple search terms using multiple instances of
NEAR/N as long as the value of N is the same:
commute <NEAR/10> bicycle <NEAR/10>
train <NEAR/10>
PARAGRAPH Selects documents that include all of the words you specify within the
same paragraph. To search for three or more words or phrases in a
paragraph, you must use the PARAGRAPH operator between each
word or phrase.
<PARAGRAPH> (mission, goal).
PHRASE Selects documents that include a phrase you specify. A phrase is a
grouping of two or more words that occur in a specific order.
Examples:
mission oak
“mission oak”
mission <PHRASE> oak
SENTENCE Selects documents that include all of the words you specify within the
same sentence. Examples:
jazz <SENTENCE> musician
<SENTENCE> (jazz, musician)
IN Selects documents that contain specified values in one or more
document zones. A document zone represents a region of a
document, such as the document’s summary, date, or body text. The
IN operator can be qualified with the WHEN operator, to search for a
term only within the one or more zones upon which certain conditions
have been placed.