Advanced Text Search Help
 

Feature

Example

Explanation

Advanced Features: Boolean and Other Operators

or

filing or disclosure 

Use or between search terms to expand your search by locating documents containing either search term.  In the example to the left, the search will generate results containing either word (or both).

and

commissioner and rulemaking

Use and between search terms to limit your search by locating documents in which both of the entered search terms appear.  In the example, the search will generate results containing both words in the same document.

not

violations not fraud

Use not between search terms to limit your search by locating documents in which the first search term appears, but the second search term does not. In the example search, results will include only documents in which the word "violations" appears but the word "fraud" does not. 

near **

registration near securities

Use near between search terms to return results where the first search term appears within about 30 words of the second term. This example search will find results containing registration within 30 words of securities.


**Please Note: This feature is supported on All Filings, Exhibits, and 8-K Item Search pages only.

near/# **

w/# **

registration near/100 securities
 

corporate w/5 jet

Use near/# or w/# to search for documents in which the first term appears within a specified number of words from the second term. For example, typing near/20 or w/20 will search for documents in which the two terms appear with 20 words of one another. 

**Please Note: This feature is supported on All Filings, Exhibits, and 8-K Item Search pages only.

pre/# **

sale pre/25 securities

Use pre/# to search for documents in which the first term appears before the second term, within a specified number of words. For example, typing pre/20 will search for documents in which the first term appears within 20 words before the second term. 

**Please Note: This feature is supported on All SEC Filings, Exhibits, and 8-K Item Search pages only.

Search using Parentheses ( )

(stock purchase or stock buyback) and (open market or negotiated transactions) 

Use parentheses to order Boolean operators in a single search; commands inside parentheses are executed first. Parentheses are recommended when using more than 2 different operators.

Nested Search using Parentheses ( )
**

stock buyback and ((open market or negotiated) near/10 transactions)
 

Use parentheses within parentheses to order Boolean operators in a single search; commands inside inner parentheses are executed first.

**Please Note: This feature is supported on All Filings, Exhibits, and 8-K Item Search pages only. 

Wildcard Search using an Asterisk *

trans*
amendment*

The first example will return words such as transport, transaction, transform, transition, etc.
The second example will return "amendment" or "amendments." 
To search for all words that begin with a specific string of characters, type in that string of characters followed by an *.

 

Please Note: This feature is not supported in Watchlist Alerts

Please Note:  global capit*
but not glob* capitalization

The wildcard symbol can only be used at the end of the search term.

Please Note:  trad*
but not tr* 

The root of the wildcard search term must be at least 3 characters.

 

Other Guidelines

Upper/ Lower Case:

stock near purchase or
STOCK NEAR PURCHASE

The search engine is not case sensitive.  Use either lower case or upper case to enter your search terms or Boolean operators.  

Quotation Marks:

“Securities and Exchange Commission” (with quotation marks) will return results that contain that exact phrase.  However, a search for Securities and Exchange Commission (without quotation marks) will assume the "and" is a Boolean operator, so the search will return results that contain both the term "securities" and the term "exchange commission." 

Please Note:  Although quotation marks are not generally necessary for a text search, they are if your text string contains the words "and," "or," or "not."  Without quotation marks, these words will be treated as Boolean operators rather than as text. 

 

Illegal Characters:

Cannot use these: 
 !  @  #  $  %  ^

Some Non-Alphanumeric Characters are illegal in our system.
Illegal
characters include  !   @   #   $   %   ^

Other Characters:

Results may vary using these: 
 
(  )  -  ,  .  :  /  &

Search engines have difficulty differentiating certain other characters. Results may vary from text as entered.
These characters include (  )   -   ,   &  .   :   /  

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