Thanks Geoff & Gilles. Setting the minimum_word_length gave me the
results I was looking for.
Chad
-----Original Message-----
From: Gilles Detillieux [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, October 28, 1999 11:29 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [htdig] searching
According to Geoff Hutchison:
> >I'm trying to set up htdig so that a user can search for state
> >abbreviations. Every time I search for a state abbreviation like
"NE"
> >it returns "No matches". But I can search for anything else like the
> >word "Cobol" and it returns results. If I search for "Cobol NE" I
will
> >get results showing were it found "NE" & "Cobol".
>
> Sure. You don't mention setting minimum_word_length, so I'll assume
> it's the default: 3. This means the abbreviation won't be indexed (or
> considered for a search). It won't be considered in the second search
> either.
>
> So why is it highlighted in the excerpt? The hilighting is done for
> any words the user entered, whether or not they were ignored (this
> goes for the bad_words_file too).
I believe that this is fixed in 3.1.3 - ignored words should no longer
be highlighted in results.
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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
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