Searching Dialog: Nesting with Parentheses
Scope
"
Nesting
" enables the
Searching for terms in a certain order
Combination of searches into more complex search strategies.
Searching for:
Alternate spellings of a word:
Example:
(
catalog
or
catalogue
)
Alternate words with essential the same meaning.
Example:
(
car
or
automobile
)
Nesting
uses Parentheses
( )
to control the order of execution
Specifically, words surrounded by the parens will be search on first.
Examples:
(
horses
or
cows
) and
farmer
horses
or
cows
is searched on first, then each word is combined with the word
farmer.
In other words, the search is equal to:
horses
and
farmers
and
cows
and
farmers
Nesting
is also useful when you do not know the exact terms that might be used in a record.
Example:
(
Shetlands
or
horses
)
and
farmer
In some databases there can be multiple levels of
nesting
Example:
((
shetlands
or
horses
)
(3n)
farmer
) and (
ireland
or
scotland
)
To:
LT65 INDEX
To:
GREENSHEET
To:
To:
TOP OF PAGE:
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