DRAFT of specification if Indexing By words for strings.

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

On 9/22/04 4:41 PM, "jda" <jda at his.com> wrote:

>>>>  I think the ability to let developers specify certain index
>>>>  properties would be very powerful, and I'm sure that many other uses
>>>>  would be found for this (other than my issue about sorting). One
>>>>  minor point, since you would want this to be extensible, would be to
>>>>  name the methods something like this: .AddIgnoreWord,
>>>>  .DeleteIgnoreWord, and .DeleteAllIgnoreWords.
>> 
>> This is what I have made in C++
>> 
>> /**
>>     If some Vstring or VarChar or VText field has option IndexByWords is
>> TRUE,
>>     then this class can specify additional parameters for its index.
>>     This parameters allow to developer/user better control the full
>> text indexing.
>>     
>>     This parameters have no affect if option IndexByWords is FALSE.
>> */
> 
> Hm, but since you can't sort on an indexbywords, those won't help
> with the sorting issue, will it?

In YOUR task it seems no.

> To sort a field you need to simply have an index, and in that case can't use
> the ignore words feature. What am I missing?

You are right.

Just we did plan feature as I have describe it.


In your case it looks solution is
    * REPLACE for many entries
    * BaseObject method field and its index.

So you need way to create such BaseObject method, which can prepare correct
string for index.


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Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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