Jason and Larry, I think I'm going to investigate using regexp. Michael, I looked into Lucene and I really don't need something that "heavy". I just need to perform some simple searches against the database.
Thanks to everyone who responded on and off list. robert > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Lea [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 5:30 PM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: [OT] Search string tokenizer > > > Regular Expressions should work: > > There are a few implementations too like > http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/index.html > > With a pattern like this: (".+"|[\d\w]*) > You should get close to what you need (i think the above will return the > space character as a token too, not sure). > > And here is a program that lets you test out patterns to see how they > match strings or will be split > http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/ > > Robert Taylor wrote: > > >I did a google search on this and didn't really come up with anything useful. > >Before I implement this myself, is there an existing implementation of parsing > >a search string which would produce tokens similar to how Google or other search > >engines parse search strings. > > > >For example, I would like to parse a search string into tokens where tokens are > >delimited by either a blank space or a quoted phrase. > > > >So the string: > > > >'Struts "web presentation tier"' > > > >would return 2 tokens: > > - Struts > > - web presentation tier > > > >but the string: > > > >'Struts web presentation tier' > > > >would return 4 tokens: > > - Struts > > - web > > - presentation > > - tier > > > > > >Any help is appreciated. > > > >robert > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Jason Lea > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
