arangodb/Documentation/DocuBlocks/general_graph_example_description.md

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For many of the following functions examples can be passed in as a parameter. Examples are used to filter the result set for objects that match the conditions. These examples can have the following values:

• null, there is no matching executed all found results are valid.
• A string, only results are returned, which _id equal the value of the string
• An example object, defining a set of attributes. Only results having these attributes are matched.
• A list containing example objects and/or strings. All results matching at least one of the elements in the list are returned.

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