Special Characters in Queries, 4 of 4

Reserved Words and Characters

The following table lists the interMedia Text reserved words and characters that must be escaped when you want to search them in CONTAINS queries:

Reserved Word	Reserved Character	Operator
ABOUT	(none)	ABOUT
ACCUM	,	Accumulate
AND	&	And
BT	(none)	Broader Term
BTG	(none)	Broader Term Generic
BTI	(none)	Broader Term Instance
BTP	(none)	Broader Term Partitive
(none)	?	fuzzy
(none)	{ }	escape characters (multiple)
(none)	\	escape character (single)
(none)	( )	grouping characters
(none)	[ ]	grouping characters
MINUS	-	MINUS
NEAR	;	NEAR
NOT	~	NOT
NT	(none)	Narrower Term
NTG	(none)	Narrower Term Generic
NTI	(none)	Narrower Term Instance
NTP	(none)	Narrower Term Partitive
OR	\|	OR
PT	(none)	Preferred Term
RT	(none)	Related Term
(none)	$	stem
(none)	!	soundex
SQE	(none)	Stored Query Expression
SYN	(none)	Synonym
(none)	>	threshold
TR	(none)	Translation Term
TRSYN	(none)	Translation Term Synonym
TT	(none)	Top Term
(none)	*	weight
(none)	%	wildcard character (multiple)
(none)	_	wildcard character (single)
WITHIN	(none)	WITHIN