HP Integrated Archive Platform manual Boolean query expressions, Syntax Matches

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PDF documents

PDF documents are another case where the internal text representation can vary widely from the visible presentation in PDF readers. Some issues that can arise:

•Text sequences can appear out of order on the same page depending on how the page was composed.

•Text can appear doubled or can have spacing inserted into or removed from the internal representation to assist some specific visual presentation.

In general, PDF documents generated via print drivers are far more susceptible to these issues than PDF documents generated directly using Acrobat and other such composing tools. However, because of the nature of PDF itself, even they are not immune.

Boolean query expressions

You can combine words, fuzzy words, and word sequences using Boolean (logical) operators AND, OR, and NOT (these must be uppercase). The following table describes Boolean operators, where exp, exp1, and exp2 represents a word, fuzzy word, word sequence, or other Boolean query expression.

Table 14 Boolean query expressions

Syntax

Matches

 

 

NOT exp

 

alternative syntax: - exp

all documents that do not match exp

alternative syntax: ! exp

 

 

 

exp1 OR exp2

all documents that match either exp1 or exp2

 

 

exp1 AND exp2

 

alternative syntax: exp1 && exp2

all documents that match both exp1 and exp2

alternative syntax: exp1exp2

 

 

 

NOTE:

The second alternative syntax for AND indicates that AND is the default connective in query expressions. You do not need to supply AND explicitly. It is assumed if neither AND nor OR is used explicitly. For example, the query peace quiet is equivalent to the query peace AND quiet.

A NOT expression must be combined, using AND or OR, with another expression other than NOT. A query cannot consist solely of negative criteria.

NOT quiet

illegal

 

 

(NOT quiet) AND (NOT blue)

illegal

 

 

NOT quiet AND blue

legal

 

 

NOT quiet OR nois*

legal

 

 

You must provide the proper number of arguments for a Boolean operator or an error message results: one argument for NOT (- or !), two arguments for AND (&& ) and OR. For example, the following queries result in an error message.

•alpha NOT: Missing argument for NOT

•AND alpha: Missing argument for AND

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