[KinoSearch] Wildcards (was Re: KinoSearch feature suggestions)

[Peter Karman]

Marvin Humphrey wrote on 1/24/08 12:31 AM:
> On Jan 23, 2008, at 6:59 AM, Peter Karman wrote:
>> Yes, Swish-e supports the '*' to match 1 or more characters at the end 
>> of the word, and
>> '?' to match exactly one character anywhere in the word. However, 
>> Swish-e does that by
>> means of a 256-byte wide lookup table (iirc), which works only because 
>> Swish-e supports
>> single-byte encodings.
> 
> Interesting.  Is the lookup table used when matching terms, or also 
> postings?  Is there a clear division between the two stages, as there is 
> in KS?

The lookup table is used in matching terms only.

There is not such a clear in division in Swish-e. There is really only the 
concept of the 'word' (i.e. term).

-- 
Peter Karman  .  http://peknet.com/  .  peter at peknet.com

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