[Ferret-talk] Find fields beginning with?

[Henrik]

Ahh so what you need is a whitespacestemmer?
OR I'm I still missing something :)

//Henke

30 jun 2008 kl. 10.52 skrev Mattias Bodlund:

> It's the same. Will match any word in the field that starts with the  
> query. Same as putting a * after the query.
>
> I was looking at a solution where a have a special index that only  
> contains the first word of the original field and then do the query  
> like
>
> firstword:dog* and theholefield:dog*
>
> Should only match "dog bone" and not "wild dog".
>
> Just feels a bit strange to have to fields here.
>
> mattias
>
>
> On 29/06/2008, at 14.52, Henrik wrote:
>
>> Found it!
>>
>> Ferret :: Search :: PrefixQuery
>>
>> 29 jun 2008 kl. 14.44 skrev Henrik:
>>
>>> Ahh true. Interesting situation. Need to research that a bit :)
>>>
>>> //Henke
>>> 28 jun 2008 kl. 10.20 skrev Mattias Bodlund:
>>>
>>>> But that doesn't  restrict the search to the start of the field.  
>>>> dog* will match both "Wild dog" and "Dog bone"
>>>>
>>>> mattias
>>>>
>>>> On 27/06/2008, at 23.48, Henrik wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 27 jun 2008 kl. 15.52 skrev Mattias Bodlund:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes looked at that but the fields I have are often short. The  
>>>>>> constrain I'm looking for is that it has to start with the query.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Like SELECT * FROM table WHERE title LIKE "term%"
>>>>>
>>>>> You want to use the WildQuery alternative. That way you can use  
>>>>> term*.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Henke
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> mattias
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 27/06/2008, at 15.47, Jens Kraemer wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 02:23:39PM +0200, Mattias Bodlund wrote:
>>>>>>>> Dens't anyone have some thoughts on this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> did you have a look at
>>>>>>> http://ferret.davebalmain.com/api/classes/Ferret/Search/Spans/SpanNearQuery.html
>>>>>>> ? Not sure but it might solve some if not all of your issues.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> cheers,
>>>>>>> Jens
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 24/06/2008, at 11.33, Mattias Bodlund wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Is it possible to search for fields that start with a word  
>>>>>>>>> or phrase?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Lets say I have the following fields:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 1 mooning
>>>>>>>>> 2 moon landing
>>>>>>>>> 3 landing on the moon
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Then I would like to be able to only get
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> The result I would like to get is:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> 1 and 2 if I search for moon
>>>>>>>>> only 2 if I search for moon landing or moon land
>>>>>>>>> only 3 if I search for landing
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>> Jens Krämer
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