Modifiers

You combine modifiers with operators to change the standard behavior of an operator in some way. The following table describes the available modifiers:

Modifier Description Example

CASE

Specifies a case-sensitive search. Normally, Verity searches are case-insensitive for search text entered in all uppercase or all lowercase, and case-sensitive for mixed-case search strings.

<CASE>Java OR <CASE>java retrieves documents that contain Java or java, but not JAVA.

MANY

Counts the density of words, stemmed variations, or phrases in a document and produces a relevance-ranked score for retrieved documents. Use with the following operators:

  • WORD
  • WILDCARD
  • STEM
  • PHRASE
  • SENTENCE
  • PARAGRAPH

<PARAGRAPH><MANY>javascript <AND> vbscript.

You cannot use the MANY modifier with the following operators:

  • AND
  • OR
  • ACCRUE
  • Relational operators

NOT

Excludes documents that contain the specified word or phrase. Use only with the AND and OR operators.

Java <AND> programming <NOT> coffee retrieves documents that contain Java and programming, but not coffee.

ORDER

Specifies that the search elements must occur in the same order in which you specify them in the query. Use with the following operators:

  • PARAGRAPH
  • SENTENCE
  • NEAR/N

Place the ORDER modifier before any operator.

<ORDER><PARAGRAPH> ("server", "Java") retrieves documents that contain server before Java.

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