[Xapian-discuss] Less than, greater than?

[Eric B. Ridge]

On Feb 9, 2005, at 10:32 AM, <rm at fabula.de> wrote:

> Hmm, but the big caveat here is: prices tend to be numeric and don't
> sort in alphabetic order ...

Good point.  However if the OP is adding the terms himself then he can 
easily left pad them with zero's.  That would do the trick.  But it 
sounds like the project is with Omega and I know nothing about how 
Omega works and what level of flexibility it provides for this sort of 
thing.

eric

>
>  RalfD
>
>> I'm assuming you've got a term in each document like XP5.00 that would
>
>> represent a field named Price with a value of five bucks.
>>
>> I think a custom MatchDecider would work too.  Here you could use an
>> indexed value of each document to make the decision, but I think this
>> happens across the entire set of documents that match your initial
>> query, not in-line with the query matching.
>>
>> eric
>>
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