Connector Order and Priority
Nexis uses the following order of operations for connector searches:
- OR
- Proximity connectors such as near/n, w/n, /s, /p, w/sent, w/para
- AND
- AND NOT
Example: bankrupt! w/25 discharg! AND student OR college OR education! w/5 loan
This search query is processed in this way:
- OR has the highest priority, so it operates first. In this example, student or college OR education! is processed as a unit, which is created by the OR connector.
- w/5 ties together the term loan and the student or college or education! unit.
- w/25 operates next and creates a unit of the bankrupt! w/25 discharg! terms.
- AND operates last and links the units formed in the second and third items above.