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Title	Operator	Example	Description
Phrase / Exact match	""	"Homer" "De affectionibus"	The term or phrase must be matched exactly (case insensitive) to get a match.
Field Search	FIELD_NAME:()	work:(Shield of Heracles) title:("Shield of Heracles")	Field searches makes it possible to narrow the search to a specific field instead of searching all fields. The same operators as used in a normal search can be applied to field searches.
Wildcard	?, *	Thoma? Socrat*	Search words including or ending with and an unknown set of characters. The wildcard ? matces a single character and * matches 0-n characters.
Fuzzy	~	John~ Socrates~	Find words which are similar (spelling wise) to the given word. Good for finding misspelled words. The examples could e.g. result in "John, Jonah" or "Socrates, Isocrates, Leocrates". Given the length of the word different rules apply : [0-2]: No fuzzyfication is applied - the word must match exactly [3-5]: One edit* is allowed [6-]: Two edits* are allowed * The default rules for edits can be overwritten by applying one of [0, 1, 2] after the "~", where the number specifies the number of edits allowed. ** An edit is an insertion, deletion or substitution of a character.
Must	+	+Testament Job +Greek +work:(Testament Greek) +"Testament of Job" Greek	Express which terms must be present to get a match: +Testament Job +Greek Both "Testament" and "Greek" must be present; Job is not required but would make a better result if present +work:(Testament Greek) One of the terms must be present in the title field (If all terms must be present, prefix each term with a "+") +"Testament of Job" The exact phrase must be present
Must Not	-	-Testament Job -work:(Testament Job) -"Testament of Job" Greek	Express which terms must not be present to get a match: -Testament Job "Testament" must not present -work:(Testament Job) One of the terms must not be present in the title field (If all terms must not be present prefix each term with a "-") -"Testament of Job" The exact phrase must not be present
Grouping	( )	(+John +Testament) (+Testament +Greek)	Group expressions together to form sub-queries. The Example reads: match ("John" and "Testament") or ("Testament" and "Greek").
Escape Character	\	love\ story	Any character with a special meaning, including spaces and the escape character itself can be escaped. This is in some cases required for keyword- and tag-types which will only match terms spelled exactly as they where entered (tags are case-insensitive). E.g. in the query language spaces are normally used for dividing terms for the query, so it is required to escape the space if it should be retained for queries containing keyword and tag fields with spaces.