Sear terms

In DEVONthink Pro Help, a search on “search terms” leads to the heading “Boolean operators.” There I found –

“term1 AND term2: Contains term1 AND term2
term1 BUT term2: Contains term1 AND term2”

What is the distinction between the AND operator and the BUT operator, if they both search the same terms in the same manner?

Thank you,

Jeff

AND/BUT are identical. The last one is useful in combination with NOT to create more “natural” queries:

word1 BUT NOT word2

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Excellent. Thank you.

Jeff

I thought I’d just add this to a similar question.

I notice on Help it states…

  • term1 XOR term2: Contains term1 or term2, but not both

  • term1 EOR term2: Contains term1 or term2, but not both
    So is XOR and EOR identical?

  • term1 OR term2: Contains term1 OR term2
    Does OR include both as well as either?

Thanks.

Yes, they’re identical. The search syntax supports many alternatives, e.g. instead of NOT you can also use - or ! and instead of OR/AND you could use |/& etc.

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