Hi!
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:44:07AM -0800, Sonia Lyris
wrote:> What is the best way to search a (possibly long) string of free-form
> text (like, say, an email) for occurrances of some set of key phrases
> of interest? Fuzzy or not; I''ll take what I can get.
could you be a little bit more specific in what you want to do? For
finding out if a phrase occurs in a single piece of text a regex
could be sufficient, but I doubt that''s what you''re asking for
:-)
of course you can do this with ferret, too:
require ''rubygems''
require ''ferret''
index = Ferret::I.new
index << ''your text here''
top_docs = index.search ''text''
puts ''found text'' if top_docs.total_hits > 0
Jens
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