Woops... corrected code below: > def escape_string(str) > return Regexp.escape(str).gsub(/([:~!<>="])/,'\\\\\1') > end
On Jan 16, 2008, at 3:51 PM, Benjamin Arai wrote: > Hello, > > I am going to answer my own questions... > > You can do something like: > > def escape_string(str) > str = Regexp.escape(item[:word]).gsub(/([:~!<>="])/,'\\\\\1') > end > > At one time there was a function called clean_string in QueryParser > but it appears to be gone. > > Benjamin > > On Jan 16, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Benjamin Arai wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to escape words for searching i.e., "hello". The key here >> is that the two L's on "hello" are actually vertical bars. Is there >> a special function in Ferret or anywhere for that matter that will do >> the escaping of the Ferret special characters? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Benjamin >> _______________________________________________ >> Ferret-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk >> > > _______________________________________________ > Ferret-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk > _______________________________________________ Ferret-talk mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
