[Ferret-talk] Find fields beginning with?

[Mattias Bodlund]

I think so. I have tried almost everything and the common missbehavior  
I get is that I keep getting hits where the query isn't in the start  
of the field but somewhere in the middle or end.

mattias

On 30/06/2008, at 14.25, Henrik wrote:

> 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
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
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