Re: [htdig3-dev] Searching phrase containing apostrophe


Subject: Re: [htdig3-dev] Searching phrase containing apostrophe
From: Geoff Hutchison (ghutchis@wso.williams.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 14 2000 - 18:56:24 PDT


At 4:28 PM -0400 4/14/00, Terry Luedtke wrote:
>I'm guessing that the parser doesn't take out the apostrophe within
>a phrase so it doesn't match any words, but then why does
>"parkinson's disease" match all the disease pages? Any ideas?

My first guess would be that the parser just threw out the first
word--note that a search for "parkinson's" returned no matches.

It's a bug, but it does point out why the parser needs some serious help. :-|

-Geoff

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