Re: [htdig3-dev] $WORDS and $LOGICAL_WORDS


Gilles Detillieux (grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca)
Fri, 14 May 1999 15:07:48 -0500 (CDT)


According to sskinner@cloud9.net:
> Our search uses boolean and substring attributes, which is great.
>
> The problem is that when users search for "yanco not press" they get our
> no match page which informs them that no matches were found for "(yanco or
> yancopoulos or yancopolous or yancopouloss) not (press or hyperexpress or
> expressway or pressing or expressed or suppressed or expression or
> depression or press or antidepressa or suppress)". This is of course the
> value of $LOGICAL_WORDS. It confuses users since they do not understand
> where all these other words came from. What I would really like is to
> repeat their exact search request. The problem is that $WORDS returns
> "yanco press" and not "yanco not press". The former is confusing since it,
> too, doesn't match what the user typed in.
>
> Is there a way to repeat the exact search expression that was entered?

Sure! Just upgrade to the latest release (3.1.2), and use $WORDS. It will
now reflect just what the user entered.

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/~grdetil
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Phone:  (204)789-3766
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