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| Advanced search | |||
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| Use these special characters to perform advanced text searches | |||
| character(s) | represents | example | matches |
| * | a sequence of letters | abr* | Abrantès, Abreu, Abraham, etc. |
| ? | a single letter | ac?ard | Accard, Achard |
| " " | exact phrase | "Abel de Pujol" | Abel de Pujol (only, and not for e.g. Abel, Bernard) |
| ~ | fuzzy search | jeanaret~ | Jeanneret, Jeannest, Jeanron, etc. |
| + | required term | jean +paul | results containing jean and paul |
| - | prohibited term | jean -paul | result containing jean but not paul |
| Boolean operators | |||
| character(s) | performs | example | matches |
| and | finds all terms | académie and suisse | lesser number of results containing both terms |
| or | finds any terms | académie or suisse | greater number of results containing either term |
| not | excludes terms | académie and not suisse | unrelated set of results excluding second term |
| ( ) | complex searches | académie and (suisse or france) | académie and one or other of suisse and france |
| Note: 'and' is the default behaviour, so a search for "académie and suisse" is effectively the same as "académie suisse" | |||