Re: [Lxr-general] Wildcards in general search

[Dr R. <drr...@gm...>]

Hi and thanks for your reply Adrian,

I have read that Swish-e documentation and there's this limitation:
"The wildcard * may only be used at the end of a word."

Using * in the middle of word/before word outputs error:
Search failed: internal error
err: Wildcard not allowed within a word

? works in the middle of word, but it can replace only one character..

I'll have to find out
1. if there are some tricks to get * wildcard work in the middle of
word using e.g. MySQL/perl search formats or scripts.
2. or I'll just study whether the Glimpse supports other than trailing
wildcards and switch engine from Swish-e to Glimpse.

-Heikki


On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Adrian Issott <adr...@ho...> wrote:
> Hi Heikki,
>
> In the general search I believe the search term is given straight to
> the underlying indexer, which in your case is Swish-e. Hence, the best
> place to look for documentation on searching is their website (http://swish-e.org/docs/swish-search.html
> ).
>
> It suggests that * would solve your problem as that matches zero or
> more characters. Their example shows it in quotes so that might also
> be needed.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Adrian
>
> On 18 Jan 2010, at 13:25, Dr Roessi <drr...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any other wildcards than '?', that can be used in the middle
>> of word when I am using general search? Or is there any way to
>> implement such a feature to Lxr? E.g. I need to find every word that
>> begins with "Please" and ends to "Me" => Please*Me could find words
>> PleaseHelpMe and PleaseYearghMe.
>>
>> There were already one mail about this, but it was related to
>> identifier search and I was not able to use dot (.) as a wildcard. [
>> [Lxr-general] wildcard identifier search ]
>>
>> I am using Lxr-0.9.6 and Swish-e-2.4.7.
>>
>> Br,
>> Heikki
>>
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