I beleive that the algorithm of removing "bad_words" should pay attention to
the boolean case, and do its job on each of the operands of the boolean
expression, not on the operators!
BTW, there are few 2 letter words in the bad_words list: it, an, of. So, why
'or' is special?
I agree that capitalizing the boolean operators does solve the problem. Is this
in ht://Dig specs that they should be capitalized?
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Part of the problem is because 'and' and 'not' appear in the bad_words
> file. If they are removed then 'and' and 'not' work as expected. 'or'
> doesn't appear of course because it is a two-letter word. However removing
> 'and' and 'not' from the bad_words list does tend to give you rather large
> search tables.
>
> >I have found that if you make the AND, OR, or NOT in a boolean
> >search UPPER CASE, it behaves as expected (I am still running
> >version 3.0.8b2).
> >
> >Tim Peterman
> >Lockheed Martin
> >Moorestown, NJ
> >
> >Zvi Har'El wrote:
> >>
> >> I have reported this in the past, put didn't see any change or response, and
> >> now thatI have intalled 3.1.0b2, I repeate the bug, simpified a little. When
> >> searching for a boolean expression, like "dog and cat", the search is done
> >> correctly, and returns the values "dog cat" in $(WORDS) and "(dog or
> >>dogs) and
> >> (cat or cater or cats or caters)" in $(LOGICAL_WORDS). Notice that an
> >>"and" is
> >> missing in $(WORDS), and if the user uses the default header.html to
> >>refine the
> >> search, the next search will genetae an error!
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dr. Zvi Har'El <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Department of
> >>Mathematics
> >> +972-4-8294094(Phone) Technion - Israel Institute of
> >>Technology
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> >>ISRAEL
> >> ``If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all.''--Thumper
> >>(1942)
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