Tim Leggett wrote:
>
> Hello again,
>
> is there a way to allow searches for parts of words? not the fuzzy
> prefix/suffix searches, but fragments. for example, my search of the
> htdig.org site for 'Gil' returned no matches for 'Gilles'. Being a lazy
> typist, I want to be able to search for, say, 'meta' and have the search
> return docs that include 'metapath' (name of my company).
With Ht://Dig this is called "prefix matching". However, you need to
tell
htsearch that the expression is used for prefix search. By default this
is done by typing "some*" (which then should result in something,
somewhat etc).
For more information, refer to the documentation:
http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#search_algorithm
http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#prefix_match_character
hth,
Torsten
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