Xapian discuss - Mar 2006 - (no subject)

hi all..
         i want to know is there any function in xapian that ll do partial
searching..
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On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 07:29:37AM -0000, shalini singh wrote:
> i want to know is there any function in xapian that ll do partial
> searching..
You can do left substring matching if you're using the QueryParser (or
omega): "mat*" will be expanded to look for any terms that start
"mat"
in the database.

Other types of wildcard search aren't possible without a different
indexing strategy. There's some discussion of this on the lists: see
<http://tinyurl.com/gx4gx>.

J

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