Basic Default Operators and Order of Operations (Configurable):

Examples:
bush & chain | cheney
basketball love ! hate
(bill | william) ~3 clinton

Escape - A '\' will escape an operator : m\&m's

Quotes - an in-order phrase search with or without a specified slop : "holy war sick":3 | "gimme all my cake"

Range Queries - a query in the form: [beginword TO endword] will perform a range search. Using a bracket is inclusive, a brace exclusive: field({begin TO end]) Just using RNG as an operator also works: field(begin RNG end)

Field Search - a field search can be performed like this: fieldname(horse | dog)
A multi-field search is field1,field2(horse | dog)

Wildcards - * indicates zero or more unknowns and ? indicates a single unknown : old harrt?n | kil?r A wildcard query cannot begin with an unknown.

Match All - *:* matches every document. *:* ! horse will find every document that does not contain the term horse

Fuzzy Query : a ` indicates the preceding term should be a fuzzy term : old carrot & devil` may cry

Term Boost: ^ is the boost operator, term^1.4

Paragraph/Sentence Proximity Searching: If you have enabled sentence and paragraph proximity searching then the '~' operator may also be used as '~3p' or '~5s' to perform paragraph and sentence proximity searches. Paragraph and sentence proximity searching is implemented using special tokens that must be put into the index at appropriate positions. It is up to you to inject the tokens into the index and then identify them to the QsolParser with setSentenceMarker(String marker) and setParagraphMarker(String marker).