[Zope] substring search on zcatalog textindex

[Chris McDonough]

If I remember correctly, partial searching was implemented against text
indexes.  I have no idea how to use it, however, as AFAIK it was never
documented.  Maybe someone else can help?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pja@clari.net.au [mailto:pja@clari.net.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 3:29 AM
> To: zope@zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] substring search on zcatalog textindex
> 
> 
> Hi people,
>   Got a slight problem.
> I've got a zcatalog with a heap of names in it, and I want to 
> be able to 
> search for and find a name, given I only know  part of the name.
> I did have it going through the entire catalog and by using 
> the substring 
> function, had it only display a result if there was a match, 
> otherwise it 
> didn't display anything.  This was ok until the catalog grew bigger.
> As it is displaying the results in batches of 20, if there is 
> no match until 
> say the 300th element in the index, then it will display a 
> page with only the 
> "previous 20 results" and "next 20 results" links, and 
> nothing inbetween 
> them, and by following the "next" link, you have to go 
> through 15 such pages 
> before you get to the actual matches.
> 
> So the question is, does anyone know of a simple way to get 
> the zcatalog to 
> also find substring matches on a textindex?
> 
> -- 
> Peter Armstrong
> 
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