Operators
| OPERATOR / FIELD | EXPLANATION | EXAMPLE |
| SEARCH SYNTAX AND EXAMPLES | ||
| BOOLEAN OPERATORS | AND - Any document which has the presence of all the terms that are coupled with AND | T: ( (Heat* OR light) AND (Sun OR Moon) ) |
OR - Any document containing the presence of at least one of the terms coupled with OR shall be returned | T: (Heat* OR light) | |
| NOT – Ignore documents that have the given term | T: (( (Heat* OR light) AND (Sun OR Moon)) NOT electric ) | |
PROXIMITY OPERATORS | w - bidirectional proximity | Optic* w2 fiber – Searches for both Optical fiber and fiber optics |
| wd - left-right ordered proximity | (antivirus wd5 software) : searches for antivirus within 5 words of software and antivirus must appear before software | |
| ws# and wp# - unordered proximity search within same sentence and same paragraph, where # is the range of occurrence | TAC: (mobile ws network) TAC: (mobile ws3 network) | |
TRUNCATIONS | ? matches a single character | optic? matches optics and not optic or optical |
| * matches zero or more characters | optic* matches optic, optics, optical | |
| _ matches two words together or with a single hyphen /space | skate_board Matches skateboard, skate-board and skate board | |
*# Will match zero to N characters. # is any number. | mix*2 matches mixer and mixed but not mixing | |
| term~ fuzzy search | brain~ matches brain, brake, crain, drain | |
SEARCHING FOR DECIMAL, PERCENTAGE AND MATH OPERATORS | 5"%" | matches both 5% and 5 % |
| 5% | same as above | |
| 0.01"%" | matches both 0.01% and 0.01 % | |
| ?"%" | matches all single digit percentages | |
| ??"%" | matches all double digit percentages | |
| [0 TO 100]"%" | matches 0%, 1%, 2% ….. 99%, 100% | |
| [0.4 TO 0.49]"%" | matches 0.4%, 0.40%, 0.405%, 0.41% | |
| [2.1 TO 2.45]"%" | matches 2.1%, 2.101%, 2.11%,…, 2.44%, | |
| 0.1 | matches 0.1, 0.1mm, K0.1N | |
| 0.01 | matches .01, .01mm | |
| [0.1 TO 0.3] | matches 0.1, 0.111, 0.101,..., 0.2992, 0.3 | |
| 0.? | matches 0.1,…, 0.9 | |
| 9e.04 | matches 9e.04, 9e .04 | |
| 802.11g | matches 801.11g, 802.11 g | |
| CLASS TREE / SUB-TREE SEARCH | Allows you to automatically search for the children of any full IPC, CPC, US or FI classes. The search syntax character for this is $ | IC: C01G21/06$ will also search for C01G21/08, C01G21/10, C01G21/12, C01G21/14, |