RE: [mv] Specifying character equivalents in search?

["Christopher Thompson" <ct@arborinternet.com>]

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Ed,

I didn't see the list light up with answers to this one. ;)

As I recall there is some support for regular expessions in some
configurations. You may need to add the SQL Perl lib for DB/GDBM. In SQL you
could do LIKE "r%d".

 You might also try to brute force it with an AND type search. Generate all
of the combinations you want and put them all in one search. If it's just
"r[aeiou]d" it wouldn't be too bad.


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> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Ed LaFrance
> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 4:32 PM
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> ******    message to minivend-users from "Ed LaFrance"
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> Hello all-
>
> Using Minivend 3.15: does anyone have a trick or code patch which will
> instruct Minivend to treat certain characters as equivalents when doing a
> search of a GDBM file?  For instance, I would like to tell MV that e = a,
> so that if a user searches for 'red', they find 'red' and 'rad'.  In this
> instance it would be ok if this was a persistant change, because the
> particular equivalents will always need to be in effect in searches.
>
> Any ideas or input are appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ed LaFrance
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