Modifiers are used in conjunction with operators. When specified, a modifier changes the standard behavior of an operator in some way. For example, you can use the
CASE modifier with an operator to specify that the case of the search word you enter be considered a search element as well. Modifiers include CASE, MANY, NOT, and ORDER, each of which is described below. CASE
Use the CASE modifier with the WORD or WILDCARD operator to perform a case-sensitive search, based on the case of the word or phrase specified. CASE modifier, you simply enter the search word or phrase as you wish it to appear in retrieved documents - in all uppercase letters, in mixed uppercase and lowercase letters, or in all lowercase letters.
When mixed uppercase and lowercase characters are included in a query, the search engine finds case-sensitive matches.
MANY modifier considers density in proportion to document text, a longer document that contains more occurrences of a word can score lower than a shorter document that contains fewer occurrences. You can use the MANY modifier with these operators: WORD, WILDCARD, STEM, SOUNDEX, PHRASE, SENTENCE, PARAGRAPH. For example, to select documents based on the density of stemmed variations of the word "apple," you can enter the following:
MANY modifier cannot be used with AND, OR, ACCRUE, or relational operators.
NOT modifier with a word or phrase to exclude documents that show evidence of that word or phrase. For example, to select only documents that contain the words "cat" and "mouse" but not the word "dog," you can enter the following:
NOT modifier only with the operators AND and OR.
ORDER modifier to specify that search elements must occur in the same order in which they were specified in the query. If search values do not occur in the specified order in a document, the document is not selected. You can use the ORDER modifier with these operators: PARAGRAPH, SENTENCE, and NEAR/N.Always place the
ORDER modifier just before the operator. The following syntax examples show how you can use either simple syntax or explicit syntax to retrieve documents containing the word "president" followed by the word "washington" in the same paragraph:Simple syntax:
NEAR/N operator with the ORDER modifier to duplicate the behavior of the PHRASE operator. For example, to search for documents containing the phrase "world wide web," you can use the following syntax: