Hi Aaron There's also the option of using Riddle.escape - so your users won't have to do anything, and you can ensure that Sphinx gets the right data. Or in a pinch, just do a gsub for hyphens :)
Cheers -- Pat On 15/07/2011, at 12:32 AM, Aaron Boxer wrote: > Thanks, Jeremy. That works. > We are trying to find a solution for our not very tech savvy > users, so that they don't need to do escapes or quotes..... > > But thanks for the useful advice. > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Jeremy Peterson > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've used quotation marks to allow hyphens, specifically for account >> numbers (1234-6789). For my advanced search, all account numbers get >> special handling. >> >> Jeremy >> >> On Thursday, July 14, 2011, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Jorge >>> >>> There's no way to not escape hyphens, I'm afraid (at least, if you're using >>> extended and boolean match modes - but could apply in all situations). It's >>> used by Sphinx as a NOT operator for boolean queries, hence the need to >>> escape it. >>> >>> Cheers >>> >>> -- >>> Pat >>> >>> On 14/07/2011, at 5:00 AM, Jorge wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Currently, I have to escape the dash character in order to treat >>>> it as a regular character. Eg UIO\-123 >>>> >>>> I am using the utf-8 character set. I have tried add a dash to >>>> my charset_table, but it doesn't seem to work. >>>> >>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "Thinking Sphinx" group. >>>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>> http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Thinking Sphinx" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en. >>> >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Thinking Sphinx" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Thinking Sphinx" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thinking Sphinx" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thinking-sphinx?hl=en.
