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Truncation

You have the ability to search for truncated words. There are three special characters for achieving this:

• *: any number of characters
• ?: 0 or 1 character
• !: exactly one character

You can use these truncation characters in any part of a word, in the beginning, the end or inside.

Operators

• a AND b: records that match every word
• a OR b: records that match at least one word
• a NOT b: records that match a, but not b

For more delicate search we can use the porximity operators:

• a nW b: records that contain a and b in this order and there is at most n words between them.
• a nN b: records that contain a and b in any order and there is at most n words between them.

Using the operators and truncation the software is able to create even 1000.000 hits within a few seconds.

a--b: search interval, search for every word from a to b (WARNING! we have to use two dashes)