13. A machine implemented method of processing data, the method comprising: receiving an input which represents a search query, the search query comprising a single prefix character followed by at least one word and further includes a parameter, wherein the single prefix character is one of a subset of word separators; automatically interpreting the search query, the interpreting comprising linking the single prefix character followed by at least one word and the parameter according to a logical combination, wherein the logical combination definition is at least partly based on a data type of the parameter; determining at least one beginning of a word in the input, wherein the single prefix character is considered a part of the at least one word and wherein the beginning of a word in the input corresponds to a location of the single prefix character in the input; performing, by a data processing system in response to the input, a prefix matching search through indexed content and metadata of a plurality of files, wherein a matching metadata or matching content begins at the beginning of the word and includes the single prefix character followed by the at least one word.
13. A machine implemented method of processing data, the method comprising: receiving an input which represents a search query, the search query comprising a single prefix character followed by at least one word and further includes a parameter, wherein the single prefix character is one of a subset of word separators; automatically interpreting the search query, the interpreting comprising linking the single prefix character followed by at least one word and the parameter according to a logical combination, wherein the logical combination definition is at least partly based on a data type of the parameter; determining at least one beginning of a word in the input, wherein the single prefix character is considered a part of the at least one word and wherein the beginning of a word in the input corresponds to a location of the single prefix character in the input; performing, by a data processing system in response to the input, a prefix matching search through indexed content and metadata of a plurality of files, wherein a matching metadata or matching content begins at the beginning of the word and includes the single prefix character followed by the at least one word. 14. The method of claim 13 wherein the subset includes at least one of dot (“.”) and dash (“-”) and wherein a space is a word separator which is not matched as part of the prefix matching.