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Special characters and reserved words

The Content Manager views special characters as separators and not as part of a word. When it performs a search with special characters, the terms within the special characters are used.

Along with numbers, the following characters have special meanings: + - ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \. To search for a string that contains one of these characters, precede the character with a backslash (\). If the character is part of a phrase or term, enclose the search text in double quotes.

In addition, you need to place a backslash in front of the following reserved words (regardless of their capitalization):

  • CONTAINS
  • NEAR
  • SENTENCE
  • PARAGRAPH
  • PHRASE
  • IN
  • MATCHES
  • STARTS
  • SUBSTRING
  • ENDS
  • AND
  • OR
  • NOT