So..a workaround would be to search using the AND function. this.that.other.thing would be searched using 'AND', and entering "this that other thing".
Correct? Is it worthwhile to ask for an EXACT search method in addition to AND, OR, and BOOLEAN.? -----Original Message----- From: Gilles Detillieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [htdig] A search complaint from one of my users According to Mohler, Jeff: > > When I use: > > http://gso-sparky.hq.netapp.com/form.htm > > to search for 'bla.bla.bla' I get error: > > "No matches were found for 'blablabla'" > > Note the missing dots. > > There are configuration details in our lists that need searched on > from time to time, what do I need to change to get htdig to use that > specific string and not wipe out the dots? Well, first of all, are you sure that stripping out the punctuation is a problem? Note that the same process is done during the indexing phase, so that if there was a document that was indexed that contained bla.bla.bla, a search for blablabla would find it! This is only a problem if you get a lot of false positives, i.e. if you MUST treat bla.bla.bla and blabl.abla as different words, and you can't allow a search for one of these to match another with different punctuation in it. If you really need to treat the period as a significant character, i.e. just like a letter, then you can remove it from valid_punctuation (set valid_punctuation in your htdig.conf to something other than the built-in default) and add the period to extra_word_characters. If you do this, though, the period will be treated as a letter in all contexts. That means that searching for the word "context" in the previous sentence would fail because it would be indexed as "context." rather than "context". See http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#valid_punctuation and http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#extra_word_characters -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Phone: (204)789-3766 Winnipeg, MB R3E 3J7 (Canada) Fax: (204)789-3930 _______________________________________________ htdig-general mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, send a message to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with a subject of unsubscribe FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html
