[Ferret-talk] Whitespace Issues

BlueJay
2006-07-14T16:37:23Z

Jeremy Bensley wrote:
> It''s hard to know for sure without seeing how your index is built,
but
> if
> you are using TOKENIZED on that field, then whenever the index is built
> the
> text is split on whitespace, and each element is added as a separate
> term.

Jeremy

Thanks for the reply. I am building the index like this...

class VoObject < ActiveRecord::Base
  acts_as_ferret :fields=>
[''short_description'',''section'',''sale_category'',''sale_type'',''outcode'']

> It looks like when you are searching, you are trying to find the entire
> text
> as a single term.
>
> In order to solve this, I believe you can either construct your query
> using
> QueryParser, which will use the analyzer / tokenizer and split the terms
> out
> for you, or you can simply split the ''section'' string on
whitespace and
> build a Term and TermQuery for each resulting element and build a
> PhraseQuery from that set.

Sorry for asking a silly question but how would I go about doing this?

> I hope this is some help,
>
> Jeremy




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