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Truncation is a special symbol used in a search word that acts like a wildcard.
- Added to the stem of a word, it will find that stem plus anything that comes after it.
- Used inside a word (e.g. wom?n) truncation symbol will usually substitute for a single character.
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| wom?n |
will return records on women or woman |
| environ* |
will
return records on environment, environments, environmental.
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| generally, * is used at the beginning or end of a word and ? is used inside words. Usually a quick look at the 'help' feature in a given database will explain any deviation from this convention. |
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