Cypher Help

[Chris]

I've been tinkering around with Cypher for the past couple days trying to get a search box to search multiple terms in a Cypher query and have pieced together this...

x = Neo4j._query('START n=node(7) MATCH (n)-[:`_all`]->(default_ret) WHERE default_ret.first_and_last =~ /(?i-mx:A.*)/ OR default_ret.first_and_last =~ /(?i-mx:B.*)/ RETURN default_ret')

I'm about to start refactoring it for simplicity and had two questions 

1) node(7) ... can someone explain this? I'm new to Neo4j and Cypher and am still wrapping my head around some of the concepts but when I replace node(7) with node(1) it breaks.

2) default_ret. What is this? Can I replace it with something that makes the code clearer?

Thank you for your help.

Chris 

[Peter Neubauer]

Chris,
Node(1) just grabs the node in the database with id =1. You give it an identifier to address later in the query- n.

Same for the second one. default_ret is an identifier that you give the matching node in the MATCH clause and later address if in the return clause.

See http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/snapshot/cypher-query-lang.html for details.

/peter

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[Chris]

Peter,

If I'm searching across all nodes without consideration of their relationship to one another how would I complete "node(7)"?

Thank you for your response. I appreciate your help.

Chris 

[Michael Hunger]

And the cypher cheat sheet at: http://neo4j.org/resources/cypher