[Zope] Enabling * searching in ZCatalog

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On Aug 18, 2004, at 12:28, Jake wrote:

> I have more than a few ZCatalogs and while playing around with them 
> the other day, I noticed that a few of them could not search using 
> wild cards like "*" and "?", they would return no results.
>
> For the life of me I could not figure out the differences between them 
> and the ones that do search with wildcards.
>
> Anyone have a pointer?

Wildcard searches have nothing to do with ZCatalog as such, whether 
they are possible is a function of the Indices you use. Only very few 
implement wildcard searches. There's the ZCTextIndex and, with a lot 
more capabilities, Andreas Jung's TextIndexNG.

jens