According to Torsten Neuer:
> Tim Leggett wrote:
> > 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
You may also want to have a look at the "substring" fuzzy match algorithm.
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