Michael,
have a look at the sources, especially myisam/ft_parser.c near line 108
and at myisam/ftdefs.h. It should not be difficult to hack the sources to
make the hyphen a real character. This will solve your problem (but could
create some new ones on others types of text input).
Thomas
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, michael elston wrote:
> I am having some trouble with fulltext search when searching a Table
> for parts numbers which contain HYPHENS ( - ) and i am 90% sure that is
> where the problem is.
>
> My query is:
> SELECT * FROM ms_items
> where MATCH (it_mnfgID, it_title, it_descrip) AGAINST ('*kk-4835*' IN
> BOOLEAN MODE )
>
> What i want to be able to accomplish is say your are searching for a
> "KK-4835"
>
> I want to be able to type in "KK-4835", "KK4835", or even "KK 4835) and
> all return the same part. as it stands right now, searching for even
> just "kk-" returns nothing but searching for "4835" will return items
> with 4835.
>
> is this a known problem with MySQL or is there a way around it? I am
> half tempted to create another column for keywords.
>
> thanks for any help
>
> -me
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