Chapter 5: Writing Full-Text Search Queries

Operator modifiers

The Verity query language includes modifiers that you can use with the operators to refine a search. The modifiers are described in Table 5-6.

**Table 5-6: Verity operator modifiers**
Modifier name	Description	Works with these operators	Example
case	Performs case-sensitive searches. If you enter search terms in mixed case, the search is automatically case sensitive.	wildcard word	<case><word>(Net)
many	Counts the number of times that a word, stemmed word, or phrase occurs in a document. Relevance-ranks the document according to its density.	paragraph phrase sentence stem word wildcard	<many><stem>(write)
not	Excludes documents that contain the items for which the query is searching.	and or	cat<and><not>elephant
order	Specifies that the items in the documents occur in the same order in which they appear in the query. Always place the order modifier just before the operator	near/n paragraph sentence	Simple syntax: tidbits<order><paragraph>king Explicit syntax: <order><paragraph>(tidbits,king)