CASE

Use the CASE modifier with the WORD or WILDCARD operator to perform a case-sensitive search, based on the case of the word or phrase specified. The modifier only needs to be specified if search words exclusively containing either uppercase or lowercase letters need to be found in the documents. When mixed uppercase and lowercase characters are included in a query, the search engine finds case-sensitive matches automatically.

To use the CASE modifier, you simply enter the search word or phrase as you wish it to appear in retrieved documents -- in all uppercase letters, in mixed uppercase and lowercase letters, or in all lowercase letters.

For example, to retrieve documents that contain the word "apple", all in lowercase letters, you can enter the following:

<CASE> <WORD> apple

Only those documents that contain the word "apple" will be selected. Occurrences of "Apple", "apples", or "APPLE" will not be selected.