On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 06:42:16PM -0400, John Bachir wrote: > I jut noticed this example in the lucene documentation*: > > title:(+return +"pink panther") > > I have been using this syntax: > > +title:(return AND "pink panther") > > Seemingly with success. Are both acceptable? I couldn't find any > documentation on "the plus sign" itself.
the plus sign marks a required clause in a query. A document can only be a hit if it matches that clause. The opposite of this is the minus sign, documents that match such a clause can't be a hit. Internally, Ferret doesn't handle AND and such, they get translated by the query parser, i.e. 'a AND b' --> '+a +b' Clauses without + or - are optional 'nice to have' clauses, they will raise a document's score if they match, but the doc won't be excluded from the hits if they don't. So 'a OR b' gets transformed into 'a b'. Jens -- Jens Krämer webit! Gesellschaft für neue Medien mbH Schnorrstraße 76 | 01069 Dresden Telefon +49 351 46766-0 | Telefax +49 351 46766-66 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.webit.de Amtsgericht Dresden | HRB 15422 GF Sven Haubold, Hagen Malessa _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
