Reineke writes:

I have got a ZCatalog, named "catalog" and 2 automatically-mady-by-zope-DTML-methods "search" and "report". The "search"-form submits the variable "title" to "report" which <dtml-in>s over the catalog.

For example: http://server.domain.com/report?title=something

So far, so good. When the title contains "something" as a word, the object is found.

What I would like to do is automatically searching with "*" concatenated to the beginning and to the end of the searchstring, so the object "something" is found when the user enters only "some" or "thing".

Use a "globbing vocabulary". Then "*" and "?" are recognized as wildcards with the usual interpretation. Of course, there is a caveat. Textindexes support a quite complex query language including boolean operators, phrase searches and near searches. When the user types in such a complex query automatically pre- and appending '*' will give unexpected results. Dieter