[Zope] substring search on zcatalog textindex

Chris Withers chrisw@nipltd.com
Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:36:39 +0100


Casey Duncan wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> For Text Indexes you can use wildcards like * and ? in searches. So that
> searching for Foo* would find Foo, FooBar, fool, etc. I'm not sure if this
> works for Field or Keyword indexes though, I haven't tried it. My though is
> it only works for text indexes which should help you anyway.

What do you do if you actually want to search for a '*' or a '?' ?

cheers,

Chris