Re: FULLTEXT Search and Hyphens

2004-01-05 Thread Thomas Spahni
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

Re: FULLTEXT Search and Hyphens

2003-12-31 Thread tk
Sorry about this, > The only way to search for kk-4835 is to do the > search > in Boolean mode and put things in quotes -> > "kk-4835" > So your query would look like this: > > > SELECT * FROM ms_items > > where MATCH (it_mnfgID, it_title, it_descrip) > > AGAINST ('"kk-4835"' IN BOOLEAN MODE ) P

Re: FULLTEXT Search and Hyphens

2003-12-31 Thread tk
Hello, Fulltext section of mysql manual: "MySQL uses a very simple parser to split text into words. A "word" is any sequence of characters consisting of letters, digits, " ' ", and " _ ". Any "word" that is present in the stopword list or is just too short is ignored." Thus a hyphen would be vi

Re: FULLTEXT Search and Hyphens

2003-12-31 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Dec 31), michael elston said: > 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

FULLTEXT Search and Hyphens

2003-12-31 Thread michael elston
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 wan