[Zope] Enabling * searching in ZCatalog

Jake jake at zopezone.com
Wed Aug 18 07:57:01 EDT 2004


So, I guess my question is, why would two exact same ZCatalogs, with the
same set of indexes have two different behaviors when it comes to wildcard
searches?

Jake
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Jens Vagelpohl said:
> On Aug 18, 2004, at 12:28, Jake wrote:
>
>> I have more than a few ZCatalogs and while playing around with them
>> the other day, I noticed that a few of them could not search using
>> wild cards like "*" and "?", they would return no results.
>>
>> For the life of me I could not figure out the differences between them
>> and the ones that do search with wildcards.
>>
>> Anyone have a pointer?
>
> Wildcard searches have nothing to do with ZCatalog as such, whether
> they are possible is a function of the Indices you use. Only very few
> implement wildcard searches. There's the ZCTextIndex and, with a lot
> more capabilities, Andreas Jung's TextIndexNG.
>
> jens
>
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