[Xapian-discuss] Searching in different fields

[M.J. van der Veen]

What about searching different fields?

Regards,

Maarten

On 12/25/06, Jim <k4gvo at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I'm afraid you are partially out of luck.  The Xapian query parser has a
> wildcard (http://xapian.org/docs/queryparser.html) but it's only for
> trailing values.  You could search for maarten* and get maarten123, but
> there doesn't appear to be a way to get smaarten.
>
> Jim.
>
> M.J. van der Veen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to index some user information and then search it. I want
> > to be able to search for instance a username, with the equivalent of
> > searching with LIKE '%name%' in a SQL language.
> >
> > I've created the following index file:
> > userid                  :    boolean=Q unique=Q field=userid
> > username        :    index=XU index field=username
> > name              :    index=XN index field=name
> > city             :    index=XC index field=city
> > province           :    boolean=XPR
> > gender              :    boolean=XG
> > avatar            :    boolean=XP
> > birthday              :    boolean=D
> > birthmonth           :    boolean=M
> > birthyear             :    boolean=Y
> > birthdate        :    value=1
> > question        :    index=XQ weight=3 index field=question
> > text              :    unhtml index
> > style            :    boolean=XS
> >
> >
> > And I filled the database with this data.
> >
> > Now, I want to search for users whose name is something like
> > 'maarten', but can be 'maarten123' or 'smaarten3' aswell.
> >
> > I'm not sure how to do this. I have specified fields, but I'm unsure
> > how to use these. Can anyone explain how to search within specific
> > fields?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Maarten
> >
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