Re: Full text search gotchas

2001-06-26 Thread Nessi
Hello Matthew I would be quite interested to know how you managed to make a partial search. I built a search engine recently using fulltext, and partial searches would never work. Say I type in child, I would never get any results with children. This is quite weird since you seem to want it the

RE: Full text search gotchas

2001-06-26 Thread Bruce Stewart
If you searched for '% john %' - note the spaces, you would not find 'johnson' etc.. -Original Message- From: Matthew Brealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tue, 26 June 2001 11:29 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Full text search gotchas We're having quite a lot of difficulty with

RE: Full text search gotchas

2001-06-26 Thread Matthias Urlichs
At 13:53 +0200 2001-06-26, Bruce Stewart wrote: If you searched for '% john %' - note the spaces, you would not find 'johnson' etc.. *Sigh* Since when do wildcards work with the fulltext index? Besides, there are characters beside a space wich can delimit words. Three examples: Commas. Line

Re: Full text search gotchas

2001-06-26 Thread Nessi
Hello, thanks for your reply. I was wondering...I thought the LIKE function is only for single words? I have to admit I never tested it and started right off with fulltext option. So would following work then... Lets assume one entry in somefield is: The children are playing on the play-ground

Re: Full text search gotchas

2001-06-26 Thread Sebastiaan J.A. Kamp
PROTECTED] To: Sebastiaan J.A. Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 2:31 PM Subject: Re: Full text search gotchas Hello, thanks for your reply. I was wondering...I thought the LIKE function is only for single words? I have to admit I never tested