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Poster:	Corbes	Date:	Dec 19, 2023 5:04am
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Do Boolean expressions work in text search?

I specifically mean in the "Search text contents" option. If I want to search for books containing "humongous" but NOT "congressional", none of these do the job:

humongous -congressional
humongous -(congressional)
humongous NOT congressional
humongous AND NOT congressional

they all behave like a standard "and" search.

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Poster:	Jeff Kaplan	Date:	Dec 20, 2023 12:00am
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Do Boolean expressions work in text search?

sorry, boolean expressions do not work in text search, only metadata search.

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Poster:	Corbes	Date:	Dec 20, 2023 1:03am
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Do Boolean expressions work in text search?

Well at least now I know, thank you Jeff Kaplan.

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Poster:	MPDMedia	Date:	Dec 19, 2023 2:43pm
Forum:	texts	Subject:	Re: Do Boolean expressions work in text search?

Random test using separate data

https://archive.org/details/pub_new-york-times?query=%22humongous%22&sin=TXT
brings up only one entry from 1985
https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_the-new-york-times_1985-09-01_134_contents?q=%22humongous%22

https://archive.org/details/pub_new-york-times?query=%22congressional%22&sin=TXT
on the other hand, this word brings up 11,025 results, including the one from Sept 1, 1985
https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_the-new-york-times_1985-09-01_134_contents?q=%22congressional%22

Weird. I've had similar problems doing Boolean searches here. Sometimes they work, sometimes nada.