Searching Styled and Unicode Text

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 5/1/03 12:29 AM, Shrink2Fit at aol.com at Shrink2Fit at aol.com wrote:

> Hi Ruslan,
> 
> I realize that I do not know a very basic fact. Can we search styled or
> html or unicode text for strings without needing to be concerned about
> special characters? For example, assume that I have a field with "see
> spot run" where "spot" is bold and "run" is italic. If I search for the
> plain text "spot run" will valentina find a match? Obviously it would be
> very desirable to store arbitrarily formatted text, but I could see how
> it might make problems if the formatting could not be ignored. Does
> Valentina ignore the formatting? Is there something else I am missing?

Hi Jonathan,

1) you must store STYLE of text into SECOND Binary field:

        String[40]  -  FixedBinary[40]
        VarChar[200] -- VarBinary[200]

So the string field contains simple text, and bold style will not break for
your text search.

Some words about this are in V4RBRef.pdf


2) Valentina do not work with Unicode yet.



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