Query Language Complex Examples
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Please read the explanation of how simple queries are processed and the description of how Panoptic presents its results before reading this page.
 
Example Query Explanation Illustrative results for this search
a:*wkin* Truncation operators within a metadata class. This query matches words containing the string wkin within metadata class a (author metadata). show results
"econom* grow*" Truncation within a phrase. This example pattern matches phrases such as economic growth and economy growing show results
t:"econom* grow*" Truncation operators within a phrase within a metadata class. show results
t:`G* Bush` Truncation operators within a near operation within a metadata class. Available from Panoptic version 4.1.3 on
[u:anu.edu.au u:usyd.edu.au] t:"comput* science" !t:basser Mandatory inclusion, dysjunction, truncation, negation and metadata classes Looks for documents whose title contains the phrase but not the word Basser but only returns documents with anu.edu.au or usyd.edu.au in the hostname part of the URL. show results
 
The example result pages linked to from the above table were saved on 26 July 2001 from a variety of Panoptic search services. The pages have been edited to remove extraneous material such as headers, footers and logos.


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