ARANGE

The ARANGE field specifier (case sensitive) allows you to find documents in which a specified field contains a term that falls within the inclusive alphabetical range of two terms specified by you.

NOTE: You can optimize the field specifier speed by restricting the field to the MatchType property type.

Format

FieldText=ARANGE{yourTerms}:yourFields
yourTerms

Type two terms separated by a comma (there must be no space before or after the comma). A document returns only if one of yourFields contains a term that falls within the inclusive alphabetical range of the specified terms.

You can use a full stop (.) in place of one of the terms, to represent an unrestricted value.

  • Use the full stop in place of the first term to include all values up to the second term.

  • Use the full stop in place of the second term to include all values after the first term.

NOTE: IDOL Content Component uses unicode tables to determine alphabetical order. This means that non-7-bit ASCII characters (ä, å, ç, d, ê, ë, ø, ö, ü, û, ß, ÿ, and so on) come after z in the alphabet.
yourFields Type one or more fields. A document returns only if it contains one of these fields, and if this field contains a term that falls within the inclusive alphabetical range of yourTerms. Separate multiple fields with colons (:). There must be no space before or after a colon.

Example

FieldText=ARANGE{aardvark,alligator}:ANIMAL

The ANIMAL field must contain a value that alphabetically falls between aardvark and alligator. A document returns if the ANIMAL field contains the value aardvark, ant, anteater, antelope or alligator. If the ANIMAL field contains the value armadillo, it does not return.

FieldText=ARANGE{bear,buffalo}:ANIMAL:TIER

The ANIMAL or TIER field must contain a value that alphabetically falls between bear and buffalo. A document returns if the ANIMAL or TIER field contains the value bear, bee, Biene, bird or buffalo. If the ANIMAL field contains the value Büffel or chipmunk, it does not return.

FieldText=ARANGE{dog,.}:ANIMAL AND ARANGE{.,cat}:PET

The ANIMAL field must contain a value that alphabetically falls after dog, and the PET field must contain a value that alphabetically falls before cat.