For example:Īppl* would match apple, application, etc. The wildcard characters can be in any position in a word. A ? in a word matches any single character, and a * matches any number of characters. Wildcards (* and ?)Ī search word can contain the wildcard characters * and ?. Thus, can't would be treated as a phrase consisting of two words: can and t. Punctuation inside of a search word is treated as a space. For example, a search for statue of liberty would retrieve any document containing the word statue, any intervening word, and the word liberty. If a phrase contains a noise word, dtSearch will skip over the noise word when searching for it. You can use a phrase anywhere in a search request. Use quotation marks to indicate a phrase. Example: ba%nana matches banana, bananna. Example: apply~ matches apply, applies, applied.įuzzy search. Search terms may include the following special characters: ? Noise words, such as if and the, are ignored in searches. For example, apple and pear or orange juice could mean (apple and pear) or orange, or it could mean apple and (pear or orange).

If you use more than one connector, you should use parentheses to indicate precisely what you want to search for. Examples: apple and pearĪpple must not occur within 5 words of pear In an 'any words' search, use quotation marks around phrases, put + in front ofĪny word or phrase that is required, and - in front of a word or phrase toĪ boolean search request consists of a group of words or phrases linked by connectors such as and and or that indicate the relationship between them. Search Requests OverviewĭtSearch supports two types of search requests:Īn any words or 'natural language' search is any sequence of text, like a sentence or a question. The search form may include one or more checkboxes for search features. In the Adobe Reader toolbar, not the dtSearch Web buttons. (For PDF files, use the hit navigation buttons After you have opened a document in dtSearch Web, youĬan use the Next Hit and Prev Hit buttons on the button bar to To view a document in the list,Ĭlick on the link. Of the documents that match your request. To search using dtSearch Web, enter a search request in the space providedĪnd click the Search button. Untitled Document dtSearch Web Introduction

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