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1.5 Phrases

To enable phrase searching, the --phrase option must be given to af, together with -i and -C, at the time of indexing.

Here is an example of a phrase search:

     $ af -s -d mydb -q '"Dinu Lipatti"'

This means, “Find all documents that contain the phrase, ‘Dinu Lipatti.” (Note that the entire phrase must be enclosed in double quotes and that spaces are not significant.) Amberfish defines a phrase in this context as the word, ‘Dinu’, followed by the word, ‘Lipatti’, with no other words in between the two. Phrases may include more than two words, as in ‘John Quincy Adams; and phrase words may be right truncated, for example, ‘Emil* Durkheim.