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I don't know who identified that format of searching as a "perl search string"; it is not recognizable to me as related to perl. Perhaps Factiva uses perl behind the scenes to do its searching. In particular, the near7 and near25 operators are not perl.

Are you getting a response from Factiva for this search and need help organizing or picking out the particular data? It would be helpful to see what you're getting back.

If your query is not returning the data you need, that is more of a question for Factiva than this forum.

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Re^2: Data collection from Factiva using Perl string
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 03, 2014 at 19:45 UTC
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Re^2: Data collection from Factiva using Perl string
by Anonymous Monk on Sep 03, 2014 at 19:42 UTC
    Hi,

    Thank you so much for responding.

    The researchers in the paper identified it as "Perl String". It does indeed not look like the Perl tutorials I have read/watched.

    When I fill in the keywords I do get the output I need, but it is specified as #articles per Company per year. What I need is #articles per Company per CEO for 10 years.

    Could the authors of the paper maybe mean that it is possible to organize the outputdata with Perl.

    This is how the authors describe the Perl program:

    "To measure negative publicity about CEO compensation, we iteratively develop a Perl program to process the text of each article about CEO compensation to assess whether the article has a negative tone. The input into the Perl program consists of a set of negative tone keywords and phrases. This set of keywords and phrases was developed from manually reading approximately 200 articles about CEO compensation, where the articles included both randomly selected firms and firms widely known to have received negative publicity"

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