[Ferret-talk] strip out non-alphanumeric characters before saving to index

[Jens Kraemer]

Hi!

That's a typical job for an analyzer, I think Ferret's StandardAnalyzer
which is used by default does exactly that. If not, try RegexpAnalyzer.

Cheers,
Jens

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 02:43:47PM +0200, Max Williams wrote:
> Does anyone know a simple way, with ferret or a_a_f, to strip out
> everything that's not a letter, number or space before saving to the
> index?  I know that i could do a custom method for every indexed field
> that regexes them out but i thought that there might be a universal
> option for it...
> 
> thanks
> max
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