Using Search Commands in Dialog
SELECT
Next, I will use the SELECT command followed by my search terms.
The example below illustrates several SELECT statements.
| Command | Example | When to Use It | SELECT S |
select bulimia? s bulimia? s antigout? or anti(w)gout? s s1 and s2 |
Use SELECT to create a set of records (e.g., s1) that contains the specified terms. |
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Brian wanted us to find information about the way physicians are using coral as a medical treatment. The sample below identifies the search terms we created in Lesson 2, including all truncation and proximity connectors.
| Concept 1 | Concept 2 | Concept 3 |
|---|---|---|
| coral | substitut? implant? replac? graft? surger? |
bone? eye? cancellous(n) bone? |
To begin searching, I enter the Dialog SELECT command at the question mark prompt followed by my search terms under Concept 1. I will conduct several searches, entering each concept as a separate search statement:
s coral?
The number of records containing my search terms appears in the search below.
s coral?
S1 156 CORAL?
Go to the next page to see how to add more terms to our search.
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