About stop words and special characters in searches
Stop words
Stop words are a set of commonly used words that Personal.cloud ignores when it performs a search. Personal.cloud treats the following words as stop words:
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a, an, and, are, as, at-be, but, by-for-if, in, into, is, it-no, not-of, on, or-such-that, the, their, then, there, these, they, this, to-was, will, with>Note: The stop words are supported in English only, unless your company subscribes to the option to perform enhanced searches in Japanese.
Note the following special cases:
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In phrase searches a stop word acts as a placeholder for any stop word, or nothing.
See Phrase searches.
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The words AND, OR, and NOT act as operators in a Boolean operator search.
Special characters
Personal.cloud omits the following special characters from searches:
* @ # $ % ^ & - + = _ { } [ ] , < > ; : / \ ?
Note the following special cases:
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In phrase searches a special character acts as a placeholder for any special character, or nothing.
See Phrase searches.
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Question marks and asterisks act as wildcard characters in a wildcard search.
See Wildcard searches.
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