[KinoSearch] wildcard searching

[John Scofield]

>
> On Sep 14, 2007, at 6:06 AM, John Scofield wrote:
>
>> I am having a problem getting wildcard searching to work. I 
>> understand that it is implemented in Lucene, but could not find any 
>> good documentation on its implementation in Kinosearch. I apologize 
>> if it is readily available, just point me to it.
>>
>> Basically I attempt to pass a query such as "Mar?" which in my 
>> understanding should return things like "Mary" or "Mark". Instead, I 
>> get no hits. It's the same with *. Any suggestions would be greatly 
>> appreciated...
>
> KinoSearch doesn't have Wildcard searching. Socialtext implemented 
> very simple Wildcard searching, in the obvious way. It's slow and 
> icky, and usually stemming gives better results. If you really must 
> have it then I can point you at some code.
>
> -matthew
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Makes it hard to find when it doesn't exist! I think I saw something on 
a socialtext list that mentioned wildcard searching. hmmm. I guess I'll 
just play with the stemming and see what I think. If not, I may ping you 
for some hacks.

Thanks,

John

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