I have two problems with getting ZCatalog to search for what I need: 1) Need to be able to search for words like 'J++' and 'C#' - this is relatively simple to do by editing Splitter.c a little and recompiling 2) Need to be able to search for single-letter words like 'C' - this is easy to modify Splitter.c to accomodate, but causes errors in GlobbingLexicon.py, even though the vocabulary is standard So far I have solved problem (1) by changing the contents of Splitter.c, but that's a bit messy. Currently I don't know of an alternative though. I have modified Splitter.c so it indexes the extra characters, and reduced the mimimum word length to 1, which works fine when indexing, and I can see all the symbol-inclusive words and single-letter words in the vocabulary. Unfortunately, any search on a single-letter word gives an IndexError, "String out of range". I am stuck on problem (2) and don't know how to avoid the errors arising in GlobbingLexicon.py without editing in some kind of hack to get around it. I don't even know why GlobbingLexicon is getting involved in the search process since I am not trying to use wildcards and haven't elected to use a globbing vocabulary (AFAIK). Can anyone explain why GlobbingLexicon is involved? Better yet, has anyone faced this problem (2) before, or come up with a more elegant solution to (1) ? Thanks for your help :) Harry