Ferret talk - Jun 2008 - strip out non-alphanumeric characters before saving to index

Does anyone know a simple way, with ferret or a_a_f, to strip out
everything that''s not a letter, number or space before saving to the
index?  I know that i could do a custom method for every indexed field
that regexes them out but i thought that there might be a universal
option for it...

thanks
max
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Hi!

That''s a typical job for an analyzer, I think Ferret''s
StandardAnalyzer
which is used by default does exactly that. If not, try RegexpAnalyzer.

Cheers,
Jens

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 02:43:47PM +0200, Max Williams
wrote:
> Does anyone know a simple way, with ferret or a_a_f, to strip out
> everything that''s not a letter, number or space before saving to
the
> index?  I know that i could do a custom method for every indexed field
> that regexes them out but i thought that there might be a universal
> option for it...
> 
> thanks
> max
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great, i''ll check those out.

thanks!
max

2008/6/16 Jens Kraemer <kraemer at webit.de>:
> Hi!
>
> That''s a typical job for an analyzer, I think Ferret''s
StandardAnalyzer
> which is used by default does exactly that. If not, try RegexpAnalyzer.
>
> Cheers,
> Jens
>
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 02:43:47PM +0200, Max Williams wrote:
> > Does anyone know a simple way, with ferret or a_a_f, to strip out
> > everything that''s not a letter, number or space before saving
to the
> > index?  I know that i could do a custom method for every indexed field
> > that regexes them out but i thought that there might be a universal
> > option for it...
> >
> > thanks
> > max
> > --
> > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
> > _______________________________________________
> > Ferret-talk mailing list
> > Ferret-talk at rubyforge.org
> > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/ferret-talk
> >
>
> --
> Jens Kr?mer
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> Schnorrstra?e 76 | 01069 Dresden
> Telefon +49 351 46766-0 | Telefax +49 351 46766-66
> kraemer at webit.de | www.webit.de
>
> Amtsgericht Dresden | HRB 15422
> GF Sven Haubold
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