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. WebCat is a RAM resident database; anything involving lots of disk reading is going 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 Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 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. WebCat is a RAM resident database; anything involving lots of disk reading is going 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 Peacock Director of Information Research and Technology Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 4720 Boston Way Lanham, MD 20706 301-459-3366 x.5010 fax 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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