How to find words and phrases as well

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Andre,

Would "find whole" instead of "find words" help?

On the other hand I have realized complex search scripts that parse a  
text to retrieve, for instance, all phrases (paragraphs) that contain  
pStr1 AND pStr2, etc.
Could you be more precise about your needs?
Then I might be able to help.

Best Regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet

Le 28 janv. 06 à 15:26, André.Bisseret a écrit :

> Thanks a lot Wilhelm for your answer and your website I am  
> discovering ; it is including very useful tools and I am learning a  
> lot from it.
>
> However, I am worrying about using the offset function for several  
> reasons :
> - actually, I have several fields to search in (what I should have  
> mention in my question, sorry);
> - the user should be allowed to write several words or phrases that  
> should  be search in this several fields;
> - I would like to find each occurrence of each word and phrases in  
> the fields (I am highlighting each of them when the user arrives on  
> one of the found card, starting from the results list).
> - In order to be retain, a card should include alls the words or  
> phrases written by the user (in other words, I would like an  
> implied "AND", not an "OR".
>
> With the "find" function it is rather easy and fast, and currently,  
> my app works well but with the restriction that the user can ask  
> only for single-word keywords, not phrases.
>
> I keep feeling that I can't easily use the offset function to  
> obtain what I want to ; Likely, I am missing something ?
>
> best regards
> from Grenoble
> André
>
> Le Friday, 27 Jan 2006, à 22:40 Europe/Paris, Wilhelm Sanke a écrit :
>
>> On Fri Jan 27, André.Bisseret Andre.Bisseret at inria.fr wrote:
>>
>>
>>>   Every card in my app are including a fld « theText » which  
>>> displays  texts.
>>> In a special fld « keyWords » the user can write one or several  
>>> words
>>> separated by spaces, say, theKeyWordsList.
>>> A button « search » executes « find words theKeyWordsList in fld «
>>> theText » such as the list of cards whose text includes all the  
>>> words
>>> of theKeyWordsList is displayed to the user in a specific results  
>>> field.
>>>
>>> I would like to be able to find not only words but also phrases. For
>>> example, the users should be able to enter « user interface » as a
>>> whole, while now they only can enter the two words « user » and «
>>> interface ». (not sure I am clear enough ?!).
>>> How to distinguish, for a find command, « user interface » as a  
>>> phrase
>>> from « user interface » as two words.
>>>
>>> André
>>> from Grenoble
>>
>>
>> Try the offset function.
>>
>> One of the many examples where this is implemented are my stacks  
>> for searching the Rev documentation "searchDocs XML".
>>
>> See page "Tools and Samples for Development" of my website "http:// 
>> www.sanke.org/MetaMedia".
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Wilhelm Sanke

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