I once got this answer to a similar question on another group. http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00280.html
Bernhard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 8:59 PM Subject: Fulltext search -- no wildcards in phrases? > It appears to me that fulltext phrase searches cannot include wildcards. > For example, I would expect "app* serv*" to match "application server," > "application services," etc. But it returns no results, so I'm having to > run each variation separately. Can anyone confirm that wildcards, indeed, > can't be used in phrase searches. I'm doing these in Boolean mode because I > need exact counts of occurrences. This is on MySQL-4.0.12-nt. > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]