[Xapian-discuss] Wildcards?

[David Levy]

And what about doing this with Omega ?

Regards

On 2/9/06, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 08:34:00AM -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
> > A client wants to be able to do wildcard searches, e. g.   where w??k
> > would match week or weak and tra* where it would match anything starting
> > with tra, like trash or travel, etc.
> >
> > Any such feature in Xapian?
>
> Right-truncation (tra*) is supported as of 0.9.2, but due to a typo in
> the documentation comments isn't in the API docs.  I'll fix that.
>
> Pass FLAG_WILDCARD as the second argument to QueryParser::parse_query()
> to enable support:
>
> http://www.xapian.org/docs/apidoc/html/classXapian_1_1QueryParser.html#a11
>
> It may be slow for a large database and a short stem (e.g. "e*").
>
> A single character wildcard (w??k) isn't currently supported.
>
> Cheers,
>     Olly
>
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