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4 Appendix
4.1 Regular Expression Basic Syntax Reference
4.1.1 Terms
A search query can consist of terms and operators. There are two types of
terms:
 Single Term is a single word such as "test" or "hello".
 Phrase is a group of words surrounded by double quotes such
as "hello dolly" (the word order specified by the query is
relevant).
Multiple terms can be combined together with Boolean operators to form a
more complex query (see below).
4.1.2 Wildcard Searches
Archive Manager Search supports single and multiple character wildcard
searches.
Characters
Character
?
*
Description
Example
single character wildcard; replaces any te?t matches text, test
single character
etc.
multiple character wildcard; replaces 0 or test* matches test,
more characters
tests, tester etc.
NOTE: The first 2 characters of the search phrase cannot contain any of the
above mentioned wildcard specification characters, i.e. ? or *.
4.1.3 Boolean operators
Boolean operators allow terms to be combined through logic operators.
Archive Manager Search supports AND, "+", OR, NOT and "-" as Boolean
operators.
NOTE: Boolean operators must be ALL CAPS.
Characters
Character
OR
AND
Description
links two terms and finds a matching document if
either of the terms exist in a document. This is
equivalent to a union using sets. The symbol ||
can be used in place of the word OR.
It is the default conjunction operator. This means
that if there is no Boolean operator between two
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Example
"test data" OR test
searches for documents
that contain either "test
data" or just "test"
"test data" AND "test
server"
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