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Wildcard Description
NOT cannot be used with just one
term. For example, the following search
would return no results: NOT compliance
Grouping
If you want to control the Boolean logic for
a query, you can use parentheses to
group clauses to form sub queries.
For example, to search for either
corporate or compliance and Second
Quarter 2007 you would use (corporate
OR compliance) AND "Second Quarter
2007"
. This ensures the phrase after AND
must exist and either term within the
parentheses may exist.
Field Grouping
Use parentheses to group multiple
clauses to a single field.
For example, to search for a file that
contains both
return and the phrase
overdue accounts you would use title:
(+"pink panther") . Notice that
the field is followed by a colon.
\
Escaping special
characters
Buffalo Surveillance Server supports
escaping special characters that are part
of the query syntax. The current list of
special characters is
+ - && || ! ( ) { } [ ] ^
" ~ * ? : \ . To execute a search using the
any of these characters literally (in other
words, to escape any of these character),
use
\ before the given character.
For example to search for (1+1):2 , you
would use \(1\+1\)\:2 . If you were to not
use the escape character for (1+1):2 ,
Buffalo Surveillance Server would search
for
( OR 1 OR AND 1 OR ) OR : OR 2 .