How about ~%substring% instead? The "~" is the symbol for pattern matching
in Perl and some UNIX languages, and it might be a clearer indicator of
function than "%".
-Yaron
On Dec 27, 2007 2:16 PM, Markus Krötzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks. I have applied the patch, and added a way of configuring this
> feature:
> the parameter $smwgQComparators gives a (|-separated) list of supported
> comparators, and can be used to enable or disable any of <, >, !, and %.
> By
> default its value is '<|>|!|%'.
>
> In this way one can also disable ! or even <, > if these are considered to
> be
> problematic.
>
> I wonder whether one should use another character instead of "%" as a
> wildcard
> inside the pattern string, so that no double-% confusion can arise. Would
> *
> be an alternative or would it be too confusing w.r.t. the old <ask> print
> requests? What about +? According examples (preprocessing would in each
> case
> ensure full compatibility with SQL):
>
> - %%substring%
> - %*substring*
> - %+substring+
>
> Cheers
>
> Markus
>
> On Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2007, Asheesh Laroia wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Thomas Bleher wrote:
> > > Yesterday I needed LIKE queries for properties, so I added it to SMW
> > > (patch attached). It was surprisingly simple.
> >
> > This would be LIKE TOTALLY AWESOME to get in to Semantic MediaWiki.
> >
> > It would be great if later SMW could have Valgol support
> > <http://www.indwes.edu/Faculty/bcupp/things/computer/VALGOL.html>.
> >
> > -- Asheesh.
> >
> > P.S. In all total like seriousness, queries with LIKE support are a good
> > idea....
> >
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