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All words
All of the keywords must be present in the item. The keyword water matches "water" and "waterfall" but not "seawater".
Contains
The keyword or phrase must be contained in the item. A search for water finds "seawater", "water" and "waterfall".
Boolean
Allows use of these keyword operators: +, -, *, "" and ().

apple banana finds items that contain either or both words.
+apple +juice finds items that contain both words.
+apple -macintosh finds items that contain “apple” but not “macintosh”.
apple* finds items that contain words such as “apple”, “apples”, “applesauce”, or “applet”.
"some words" finds items that contain the exact phrase “some words” (for example, “some words of wisdom” but not “some choice words”).
+apple +(pie juice) finds items that contain “apple” and “pie”, or “apple” and “juice”.

Fields Search

Matches
Use the matches options to utilize MySQL regular expression features.

| separates multiple search terms. apple|peach|pear finds items where the field contains any or all of the terms.
[[:<:]] matches the beginning of words.[[:<:]]land finds "land", "lands", and "landing", but not "england" or "island".
[[:>:]] matches the ending of words.land[[:>:]] finds "england", "island", and "land", but not "lands" or "landing".

You can combine options to further narrow results. For example Title does not match [[:<:]]land AND Title matches land[[:>:]] to find only items where the Title contains words that end with, but don't start with "land".

Years

For an open-ended year range such as from 1900 or until 1970, leave either Start or End blank. Items that use a year range as their Date, for example "1861-1865," will only be searched based on the first year in the range. Thus, a search for items in the range 1864 to 1865 will not find the example item.