[htdig-dev] Re: Problems with fuzzy algorithms

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

Greetings all,

It seems that the problem is that words in the word database have a=20
couple of numeric fields appended to them.  My guess is that these=20
are new since 3.1, but I don't know what they are for.

The solution seems to be to write a second compare function which only=20
compares the string component of the keys.

Comments, anyone?

BTW, my internet connection has been very flaky of late, so apologies=20
if I'm slow in replying to anything.

Cheers,
Lachlan

On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:33, Lachlan Andrew wrote:

> "Speling" generates permuted forms of the query term, and check
> each to see if it is in the database, like so:
>   if (!wordDB.Exists(initial))   // Seems weird, but this is correct
>
> The problem is that, whether or not the permutation is in the
> database,  wordDB.Exists(...)  always seems to return -1 ("true"),
> which means that the 'if' always fails (despite the comment saying
> it is correct :)

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