Punctuation Marks in Queries

Any character without special meaning in the Verity Query Language can be entered anywhere in a query. For example, this query finds pages that match the phrase:

The following characters have special meaning in the Verity Query Language.

Character
Description
, ( ) [
These characters end a text token.
= > < !
These characters end a text token because they signify the start of a field operator (! is special: != ends a token).
‘ @ ` < { [ !
These characters signify the start of a delimited token, which are terminated by the end character associated with the start character.

To search for a string that contains one of these characters, precede the character with a backslash. For example, to find pages that match Rick’s Cafe, enter this query:

Tip

To search for a string that contains a backslash character, enter two backslash characters. For example, to find a page that contains a directory named c:\games, enter this query:

Character	Description
, ( ) [	These characters end a text token.
= > < !	These characters end a text token because they signify the start of a field operator (! is special: != ends a token).
‘ @ ` < { [ !	These characters signify the start of a delimited token, which are terminated by the end character associated with the start character.