Re: creating an index based on first letter of word inspecific field in database

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2002


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 41762
interpreted = N
texte = A little more info. I think I need to use something like the summ=t paraameter to the search,however, as these are full words, my reading of summ=t won't work for me here. Unless I add a new field to the database where I store only the first letter of the term in the main field I am searching.Any better/smarter ideas?ThanksDaleOn Saturday, July 20, 2002, at 09:09 PM, dale's stuff wrote:> Hi, > > I want to provide a set of alphabetical links for the entries in a > database - think of an old style phone book > > not sure the best way to do this. > > Looking to have results like: > > A B C E F > > which would mean that there are words beginning with the letters A, B, and > C, but no words beginning with the letter D in the database. > > The letters listed about will be links to a results page listing all the > words that begin with that respective letter. > > Ideas? > > Using WC 4.02 on Linux > > Thanks > > Dale ------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: creating an index based on first letter of word inspecific field in database (dale 2002)
  2. Re: creating an index based on first letter of word inspecific field in database (Gary Krockover 2002)
  3. Re: creating an index based on first letter of word inspecific field in database (Anup Setty 2002)
  4. Re: creating an index based on first letter of word inspecific field in database (dale's stuff 2002)
A little more info. I think I need to use something like the summ=t paraameter to the search,however, as these are full words, my reading of summ=t won't work for me here. Unless I add a new field to the database where I store only the first letter of the term in the main field I am searching.Any better/smarter ideas?ThanksDaleOn Saturday, July 20, 2002, at 09:09 PM, dale's stuff wrote:> Hi, > > I want to provide a set of alphabetical links for the entries in a > database - think of an old style phone book > > not sure the best way to do this. > > Looking to have results like: > > A B C E F > > which would mean that there are words beginning with the letters A, B, and > C, but no words beginning with the letter D in the database. > > The letters listed about will be links to a results page listing all the > words that begin with that respective letter. > > Ideas? > > Using WC 4.02 on Linux > > Thanks > > Dale ------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ dale's stuff

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