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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`’.