[Zope] Field index problem

[Andreas Jung]

FieldIndexes are not TextIndexes and vice versa. You can not have both 
except you
write your own customized index that fits your needs or you create a 
fieldindex and
a textindex for the attribute and do some magic post-processing.

-aj

--On Donnerstag, 20. November 2003 17:08 Uhr +0100 Jean Baltus 
<jean.baltus at africamuseum.be> wrote:

> Hi all,
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> I'm using a Field Index to index the "lastname" attribute of some
> content types. I would like to be able to search on those content types
> for lastnames which start with 'b' for instance. But I can't do a
> truncated search (B*) for a field index.
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> Is there any way I can do that. TextIndex doesn't suit my needs as a
> lastname can contain several words. So B* would also match "Van Bil" .
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> Any ideas on how I can achieve this ?
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> -- Jean
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