Excerpts from John Bachir's message of Fri Jan 19 15:57:35 -0800 2007: > On Jan 17, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Benjamin Krause wrote: > > > FERRET_SPECIAL_CHARS = [ /:/, /\(/, /\)/, /\[/, /\]/, /!/, /\ > > +/, /"/, /~/, /\^/, /-/, /|/, />/, /</, /=/, /\*/, /\?/, /\./, /&/ ] > > 1. Should $ be in the list?
There's a list at http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/QueryParser.html and $ doesn't seem to be on it. (Neither does & or .) > 2. Here is the solution I came up with, (nothing mind shattering but > I thought some folks on the list might appreciate seeing it): > > query = (query.split('') - (FERRET_SPECIAL_CHARS - CONFIG > [:allowed_ferret_syntax])).join() Doesn't this also eliminate escaped versions of the special characters? (Might not be a problem, depending on the specifics of the corpus.) -- William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
