Re: Use WebCat to search files in a folder like a search engine?
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texte = Steven Jarvis wrote:> > > We have an indexing engine (WebSTAR Search), but it's been somewhat> problematic for us. I've found that WebCat is more dependable and> customizable.> The particular application I wanted to use WebCat for would only have to be> indexed once per day. It's for a newspaper site, and it's for searching the> classified ads from the paper, which are output by the ad manager software> as HTML files, one file per category per night. It's the only way that> software package will output the ads.> > I've been indexing that folder with WebSTAR's SearchIndexer each night, and> that works OK. I thought I might be able to put together a more robust> search with WebCat, is all.If you had access to Perl, I would suggest using that instead. WebCatis a RAM resident database; anything involving lots of disk reading isgoing to be very slow. You could even use Perl to parse the HTML files and turn them into databases for WebCat to use.John--John PeacockDirector of Information Research and TechnologyRowman & Littlefield Publishing Group4720 Boston WayLanham, MD 20706301-459-3366 x.5010fax 301-429-5747-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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Steven Jarvis wrote:> > > We have an indexing engine (WebSTAR Search), but it's been somewhat> problematic for us. I've found that WebCat is more dependable and> customizable.> The particular application I wanted to use WebCat for would only have to be> indexed once per day. It's for a newspaper site, and it's for searching the> classified ads from the paper, which are output by the ad manager software> as HTML files, one file per category per night. It's the only way that> software package will output the ads.> > I've been indexing that folder with WebSTAR's SearchIndexer each night, and> that works OK. I thought I might be able to put together a more robust> search with WebCat, is all.If you had access to Perl, I would suggest using that instead. WebCatis a RAM resident database; anything involving lots of disk reading isgoing to be very slow. You could even use Perl to parse the HTML files and turn them into databases for WebCat to use.John--John PeacockDirector of Information Research and TechnologyRowman & Littlefield Publishing Group4720 Boston WayLanham, MD 20706301-459-3366 x.5010fax 301-429-5747-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/
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