Ferret talk - Dec 2005 - non-character search

I need to be able to search for certain symbol characters.  For
example, I want the search for c++ to work.  I try enclosing it in
quotes, but it seems to treat C and the pluses as two separate
characters to look for.  Search for ++ alone seems to find documents
that don''t have any pluses in them.  Why would that happen?

Thanks,
Carl

On Dec 14, 2005, at 8:50 PM, Carl Youngblood wrote:
> I need to be able to search for certain symbol characters.  For
> example, I want the search for c++ to work.  I try enclosing it in
> quotes, but it seems to treat C and the pluses as two separate
> characters to look for.  Search for ++ alone seems to find documents
> that don''t have any pluses in them.  Why would that happen?
What analyzer are you using?

If you can get a little lower-level and get the Query object, what  
does it''s to_s provide?

Analysis and query parsing is tricky business that requires attention  
to the details of how text is tokenized and how the parser interacts  
with it.  My article "QueryParser Rules" is an oldie, but a goodie  
that might help troubleshoot this situation:

	http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2003/11/07/QueryParserRules.html

Erik