Re: Word search
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1997
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numero = 13634
interpreted = N
texte = At 2:50 PM -0800 9/26/97, Grant Hulbert is rumored to have typed: > >What I mean is this: If I do a search on my database for Myst (like the > >game), it returns entries with the word Myst but it also returns entries > >with words like mystery. I'd like it to return *just* the Myst records. > > Yes, you can: looking in the online docs under Searching/Word Breaks I >see that if you set fieldnameWORD=ww, then it looks for whole word matches.I can't believe that I never noticed that section before. Thanks for your very precise help.> >but webcat crashes > >my server if I do a search for a single letter, like X (which is the name > >of one of our products). > > That shouldn't happen, so should be considered a bug. Do you have enough >memory allocated to handle a huge amount of returned text when someone >looks for a single letter? Do you have the maximum number of returned >records set pretty low in your preferences?I have the maximum number prefs set to 500, and about 25 MB of RAM allocated to WebStar.MichaelMichael Winston *By Phone!: (503)/652/8815 x341 Internet Coordinator *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/
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At 2:50 PM -0800 9/26/97, Grant Hulbert is rumored to have typed: > >What I mean is this: If I do a search on my database for Myst (like the > >game), it returns entries with the word Myst but it also returns entries > >with words like mystery. I'd like it to return *just* the Myst records. > > Yes, you can: looking in the online docs under Searching/Word Breaks I >see that if you set fieldnameWORD=ww, then it looks for whole word matches.I can't believe that I never noticed that section before. Thanks for your very precise help.> >but webcat crashes > >my server if I do a search for a single letter, like X (which is the name > >of one of our products). > > That shouldn't happen, so should be considered a bug. Do you have enough >memory allocated to handle a huge amount of returned text when someone >looks for a single letter? Do you have the maximum number of returned >records set pretty low in your preferences?I have the maximum number prefs set to 500, and about 25 MB of RAM allocated to WebStar.MichaelMichael Winston *By Phone!: (503)/652/8815 x341 Internet Coordinator *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/
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