Subject: Re: [htdig] WORD* or similar possible?
From: Torsten Neuer (tneuer@inwise.de)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 06:18:23 PDT
"ZVW (Carsten Blees)" wrote:
>
> 'lo there,
>
> 'til now (i'm quite new to htdig)
> I couldn't find any information about searching for
> parts or wildcards of words/strings, like
>
> germ*
>
> would find germany, germ, germanic and so on...
>
> is there any feature like this in htdig?
Yes. It is called "prefix matching" here.
> if yes, what's the syntax?
The same syntax you used in your example ;-)
> if not, why? =8)
You need to specify the search algorithm in the configuration
file. Prefix matching slows down the search process, especially
on huge databases. Therefore it is not enabled by default.
Have a look at the online documentation,
http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#search_algorithm
hth,
Torsten
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