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Refining your searches with zones and fields 601
Modifiers
You combine modifiers with operators to change the standard behavior of an operator in some
way. The following table describes the available modifiers:
Refining your searches with zones and fields
One of the strengths of Verity is its ability to perform full-text searches on documents of many
formats. However, there are often times when you want to restrict a search to certain portions of a
document, to improve search relevance. If a Verity collection contains some documents about
baseball and other documents about caves, a search for the word bat might retrieve several
irrelevant results.
If the documents are structured documents, you can take advantage of the ability to search zones
and fields. The following are some examples of structured documents:
Documents created with markup languages (XML, SGML, HTML)
Internet Message Format documents
Documents created by many popular word-processing applications
Modifier Description Example
CASE Specifies a case-sensitive search. Normally,
Verity searches are case-insensitive for search
text entered in all uppercase or all lowercase,
and case-sensitive for mixed-case search
strings.
<CASE>Java OR <CASE>java
retrieves documents that
contain Java or java, but not
JAVA.
MANY Counts the density of words, stemmed
variations, or phrases in a document and
produces a relevance-ranked score for retrieved
documents. Use with the following operators:
WORD
WILDCARD
STEM
PHRASE
SENTENCE
PARAGRAPH
<PARAGRAPH><MANY>javascri
pt <AND> vbscript.
You cannot use the MANY
modifier with the following
operators:
AND
OR
ACCRUE
Relational operators
NOT Excludes documents that contain the specified
word or phrase. Use only with the AND and OR
operators.
Java <AND> programming <NOT>
coffee retrieves documents that
contain Java and programming,
but not coffee.
ORDER Specifies that the search elements must occur in
the same order in which you specify them in the
query. Use with the following operators:
PARAGRAPH
SENTENCE
NEAR/N
Place the ORDER modifier before any operator.
<ORDER><PARAGRAPH>
("server", "Java") retrieves
documents that contain server
before Java.