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Re: [mv] Help! Searching words beginning with "A" not working
Hi Mike -
> [page scan
> se=a.*
> sf=description
> bs=yes
> sp=bresults]A[/page]
>
> it comes back with
> "could not find any matches for a.*" (which is in my [no match] section of
> my results page).
Generally in MiniVend you don't use regular expressions to specify search
strings. Try changing "se=a.*" to just "se=a".
Also, if you're really just looking for words that start with "a", look in
the docs under "Fast Binary Search" and use a dictionary-ordered index
file.
Larry Leszczynski
larryl@furph.com
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