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Aid4Mail 5 Proximity Searching
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Proximity Searching Basics
A proximity search finds words or characters that are located close to one another. Proximity searches can be very powerful, using context to enable precis...
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Proximity searching within a sentence
Aid4Mail provides proximity searching within a sentence through the ~* character wildcard and the <.> word wildcard. Matching characters within a sen...
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Proximity searching within a paragraph
Aid4Mail provides proximity searching within a paragraph through the ** character wildcard and the <*> word wildcard. Matching characters within a p...
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Proximity searching within a specified distance
Aid4Mail provides proximity searching within a specified distance through the <n> wildcard. Distance is measured as the number of intermediate words (...
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Word order in proximity searches
Word order is important The order of words in a proximity search term is important. For example, the search term jim<5>sand will find the following s...
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Chaining proximity searches
As with all wildcards, you can specify more than one in the same search term. Example 1 cat<8>dog<8>horse The above search term will match t...
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