If I remember correctly, partial searching was implemented against text indexes. I have no idea how to use it, however, as AFAIK it was never documented. Maybe someone else can help?

-----Original Message----- From: pja@clari.net.au [mailto:pja@clari.net.au] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 3:29 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] substring search on zcatalog textindex

Hi people, Got a slight problem. I've got a zcatalog with a heap of names in it, and I want to be able to search for and find a name, given I only know part of the name. I did have it going through the entire catalog and by using the substring function, had it only display a result if there was a match, otherwise it didn't display anything. This was ok until the catalog grew bigger. As it is displaying the results in batches of 20, if there is no match until say the 300th element in the index, then it will display a page with only the "previous 20 results" and "next 20 results" links, and nothing inbetween them, and by following the "next" link, you have to go through 15 such pages before you get to the actual matches.

So the question is, does anyone know of a simple way to get the zcatalog to also find substring matches on a textindex?

-- Peter Armstrong

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