Query Language

The text search engine allows queries to be formed from arbitrary Boolean expressions containing the keywords AND, OR, and AND NOT.  For example:

chocolate peanuts
finds documents containing 'chocolate' or 'peanuts'

chocolate or peanuts
same as above

chocolate and peanuts
finds documents containing both 'chocolate' and 'peanuts'

chocolate and not peanuts
finds documents containing 'chocolate' but not 'peanuts'
 

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