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Connector |
Function |
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Example |
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| quotes
" " |
searches terms only as a phrase |
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"international law" will find documents that contain
a phrase international law, but not those that
only have a phrase international criminal law |
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| OR |
finds
documents that have at least one of the search terms
(default setting) |
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torture OR abuse will find all documents that
contain either the word torture or the word
abuse or both words |
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| AND |
finds
only documents that have both search terms |
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torture AND abuse will not find a document
that only has the word torture, or only has the
word abuse |
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| asterix
* |
when
inserted in a word substitutes any number of characters |
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intern* will find documents that contain words
intern, international, internship, internationalized,
interns etc. |
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question mark ? |
when
inserted in a word substitutes one character |
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intern? will find documents that contain the word
interns, but not international, internship,
internationalized, interns etc |
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| hyphen
- |
when
inserted immediately before a term, that term is
excluded from the search |
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international -transnational would return all
documents that have the word international and do
not have a word transnational |
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| dates |
dates
of the all decisions are formatted in the following way
"dd month yyyy" |
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"21
January 1921" will find all decisions in the
database that have been passed on January 21st, 1921 |
