operators

Operators

IB search is built around the concept of set. The result of each search is a "result set". These may be combined.

The basic set element is the set of the relevant records to a single word or phrase. Query expressions can be build using multiple terms and combined together by operators to form a more complex query.

If "SetA" is the set of search A and "SetB" is the set of Search-B then:

  • The union of SetA and SetB is the set of "Search-A OR Search-B".
  • The intersection of SetA and SetB is the set of "Search-A AND Search-B".
  • The complement of SetA is the set of all records in the index not contained in SetA. That's NOT SetA

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