[Zope-CMF] Why can't I search for a document that contains a number rather than a word?

[Tres Seaver]

On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 00:33, suresh_vv wrote:
> I am doing a search for a number (like 21) which is present in the 
> Description field of a document. It is not returned in the search. If 
> I search for any words (alphabetic) then the document is found in the 
> search.
> 
> I am using CMF 1.3

The "classic" Zope TextIndex uses a splitter which drops numbers,
like "stop words", in the bit bucket (by desgin).

As a workaround, you could investigate replacing the Description index
with an alternative (ZCTextIndex, TextIndexNG) which might be more
friendly to using numbers in your query.

Tres.
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