MATCH

The MATCH field specifier (case sensitive) allows you to find documents in which the entirety of a specified field contains a value that exactly matches a specified string.

NOTE: You can optimize the field specifier speed by restricting the field to the MatchType property type. You can also optimize the field specifier by restricting the field to the ReferenceType property type, but only if you use only ReferenceType fields in the specifier.

To use the MATCH field specifier against fields that were added using the DREREPLACE index action, you must define the fields as MatchType.

Format

FieldText=MATCH{yourStrings}:yourFields
yourStrings

One or more strings. A document returns only if one of these strings matches one of yourFields exactly. The matching is case-insensitive. You can match strings that contain punctuation (but see the following note) or consist of several words.

NOTE: Strings in the query should be percent-encoded. This ensures that any commas or curly braces that are part of a string are not interpreted as query syntax. If you are sending HTTP requests using the content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded you should then percent-encode all parameter values, meaning that any commas or curly braces that are part of a string are percent-encoded twice (such that a comma is represented by the sequence %252c). For more information, see Percent Encoding in Queries.
yourFields Type one or more fields. A document returns only if it contains one of these fields, and if the value in this field exactly matches one of yourStrings. Separate multiple fields with colons (there must be no space before or after a colon).

Example

FieldText=MATCH{Archive,Web,docs}:DIR:DIRECTORY

The DIR or DIRECTORY field must have the value Archive or Web or docs for the document to return as a result.

FieldText=MATCH{Premier league}:DB

The DB field must have the value Premier League for the document to return as a result.

FieldText=MATCH{0-226-10389-7}:ISBN

The ISBN field must have the value 0-226-10389-7 for the document to return as a result.

FieldText=MATCH{Einstein%252C Albert}:AUTHOR

The AUTHOR field must have the value Einstein, Albert for the document to return as a result.