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<h1>ZQuery Help For Formulating Queries</h1>

This search system supports following searches:

<ul>
<li><a href=#simple>Simple words</a>
<li><a href=#regex>Regular expressions</a>
<li><a href=#phrase>Phrases</a>
<li><a href=#not>Exclude expression</a>
</ul>

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<p>
<a name=simple><h2>Simple words:</h2></a>
Type in one or more words you want to find in document.

<p>
Example:
<ul>
<li><cite>house</cite>      matches house
<li><cite>house farm</cite> finds documents which has the words house and farm
</ul>

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<a name=regex><h2>Regular expressions:</h2></a>
Following regular expressions are supported.

<ul>
<li><cite>house</cite>      matches house
<li><cite>.</cite>          matches any character
<li><cite>[ad]</cite>       matches a or d
<li><cite>[abc]</cite>      matches a, b or c
<li><cite>[a-n]</cite>      matches any character from a to n
<li><cite>[a-do-z]</cite>   matches any character from a to d and o to z
<li><cite>x*</cite>         matches x zero or more times
<li><cite>x+</cite>         matches x one or more times
<li><cite>x?</cite>         matches x once or twice
</ul>

Example:
<ul>
<li><cite>house</cite>      matches house but not inhouse or houser
<li><cite>h.use</cite>      matches hause, hbuse, hcuse ...
<li><cite>h[au]use</cite>   matches hause, huuse
<li><cite>h[ade]use</cite>  matches hause, hduse, heuse
<li><cite>h[x-z]use</cite>  matches hxuse, hyuse, hzuse
<li><cite>ha*use</cite>     matches huse, hause, haause, haaause ...
<li><cite>ha+use</cite>     matches hause, haause, haaause, haaaause ...
<li><cite>ha?use</cite>     matches hause, haause
</ul>

The expression <cite>"a*"</cite> means a, aa, aaa ... and not any word
beginning with "a" like a, aa, ab, ac ... aba etc.
If you want to find all expressions starting with an "a", you should
type in <cite>"a.*"</cite>. This also applies to the expression "a.+" which
means find any expression starting with an "a" and is at least two characters
long.

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<a name=phrase><h2>Phrases enclosed in quotes:</h2></a>
Phrases should be enclosed in quotes.

<p>
Example:
<ul>
<li><cite>"dark house"</cite> matches "dark house"
</ul>

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<a name=not><h2>Exclude words or phrases with "-":</h2></a>
Words or phrases can be excluded by prepending a "-".

<p>
Example:
<ul>
<li><cite>house -dark</cite> finds documents which contains "house" but
    not "dark".
</ul>

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<h2>You can use any combination of examples described above:</h2>

<p>
Example:
<ul>
<cite>
<li>house barn cow
<li>"farm house"
<li>"farm house" -cow
<li>farm house -"white cow"
<li>"farm house" -"white cow"
<li>farm.* -white -cow
</cite>
</ul>

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<p>
This search system is based on a Z39.50 server. The current setting for
query is to:

<ul>
<li>Search keywords in <cite>"bib-1 Any"</cite>, that is 1016,4,1005,62 of
    a document. It means search any(1016) field which contains title(4),
    author(1005) and abstract(62) according to bib1.att. The soif.flt does
    following SOIF to bib-1 mapping: title to title, author to author and
    description to abstract.
<li>Match on word boundary
<li>Match case insensitive
<li>Sort hits by internal relevance ranking value (better hits first)
</ul>

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