[htdig-dev] Re: not allowing getopt::std

[Lachlan A. <lh...@us...>]

Greetings Andy/all,

It seems this relates to an Undocumented Feature(tm).  Words beginning=20
with  'exact:'  or  'hidden:'  are treated differently.  As a side=20
effect, it introduces the bug of not splitting words at colons.

Could someone who knows what  exact:  and  hidden:  mean please=20
explain what they are for (and/or document them officially)?  I don't=20
want to break anything while trying to fix the bug.

On a related note, does anyone have any ideas for the syntax of "field=20
restricted" searches?  I was thinking of something like "title:word"=20
to search for "word" in the title field, or "heading:word" etc.  Was=20
the plan to allow user-defined fields in meta-data to be searched? =20
That would be hard!

Cheers,
Lachlan

On Friday 31 January 2003 07:49, And...@wi... wrote:
> ...found that it would not find on double colons...
> =09getopt::std
> retreived nothing, as did:
> =09"getopt::std"
> while:
> =09getopt std
> was the same as:
> =09"getopt std"
> =09"getopt :: std"
> =09"getopt :: std ::"