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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi all:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I was getting 0 results when I should’ve been getting 78 results with the following query:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Host-item:Criminology and criminal justice : an international journal<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I looked in the Zebra logs, and noticed that it was being transformed into the following: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>@not @and @attr 1=1033 Criminology @and @and @and @and @and criminal justice = an international journal @attr 1=9011 1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If we decompose the RPN, we’ll see that it’s basically saying:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> (Host-item=Crimology and ((((criminal and justice) and = ) and international) and journal )) not Suppression=1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The problem is that “=” is going to return 0 results, so the “and” will always be 0. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The way to remedy this problem is to add quotes around our Host-item “value”:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Host-item:”Criminology and criminal justice an international journal”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This will produce the following RPN query, which returns 78 results:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>@not @attr 1=1033 "Criminology and criminal justice = an international journal" @attr 1=9011 1<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As far as I can tell, the = symbol is ignored. You can remove it or substitute another symbol and it’ll still return the same number of results.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Although it looks like using * for truncation doesn’t work in double quotation marks... I suppose that’s because it’s already part of a term so you can’t really translate it into RPN separately… <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I notice sometimes we strip out double quotation marks from queries and sometimes we add them in… we should probably do something consistent…<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>David Cook<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Systems Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>Prosentient Systems<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-AU'>72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>