Valentina 2.0. -- What is your 3 DREAM features?

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 1/31/04 10:21 PM, Tim Davis at timdavis at amug.org wrote:

> 
>>> some kind of lexicographic search
>>> to be able to look for "e" and find "è é ë" etc.
>>> 
>>> some tunable soundsalike search
>>> to be able to look for "jon" and find "john, joan, jan" etc.
>> 
>> Not sure. May be ICU library can do this.
> 
> I also would like to be able to select lexicographic and phonetic
> algorithms (ie. Soundex) for searches AND sorts.
> 
> Additionally I would like to be able to define custom sorts of a unique
> string pattern. For example, I recently was dealing with a string which
> had patterned combination of strings and numbers. My result was to
> break it up into three baseobject methods, and then Order By each of
> those methods. It would be nice to be able to define a custom default
> sort for strings/varchar to streamline use of that field.

You mean callback for

    int Compare( v1, v2 )

-- 
Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
-------------------------------------------------------------
e-mail: ruslan at paradigmasoft.com
web: http://www.paradigmasoft.com

To subscribe to the Valentina mail list go to:
http://lists.macserve.net/mailman/listinfo/valentina
-------------------------------------------------------------