It's the same. Will match any word in the field that starts with the query. Same as putting a * after the query.

I was looking at a solution where a have a special index that only contains the first word of the original field and then do the query like

firstword:dog* and theholefield:dog*

Should only match "dog bone" and not "wild dog".

Just feels a bit strange to have to fields here.

mattias


On 29/06/2008, at 14.52, Henrik wrote:

Found it!

Ferret :: Search :: PrefixQuery

29 jun 2008 kl. 14.44 skrev Henrik:

Ahh true. Interesting situation. Need to research that a bit :)

//Henke
28 jun 2008 kl. 10.20 skrev Mattias Bodlund:

But that doesn't restrict the search to the start of the field. dog* will match both "Wild dog" and "Dog bone"

mattias

On 27/06/2008, at 23.48, Henrik wrote:


27 jun 2008 kl. 15.52 skrev Mattias Bodlund:

Yes looked at that but the fields I have are often short. The constrain I'm looking for is that it has to start with the query.

Like SELECT * FROM table WHERE title LIKE "term%"

You want to use the WildQuery alternative. That way you can use term*.

Cheers,

Henke


mattias




On 27/06/2008, at 15.47, Jens Kraemer wrote:

On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:23:39PM +0200, Mattias Bodlund wrote:
Dens't anyone have some thoughts on this?

did you have a look at
http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Search/Spans/SpanNearQuery.html
? Not sure but it might solve some if not all of your issues.

cheers,
Jens

On 24/06/2008, at 11.33, Mattias Bodlund wrote:

Is it possible to search for fields that start with a word or phrase?

Lets say I have the following fields:

1 mooning
2 moon landing
3 landing on the moon

Then I would like to be able to only get

The result I would like to get is:

1 and 2 if I search for moon
only 2 if I search for moon landing or moon land
only 3 if I search for landing


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