> On Fri, 9 Apr 2004, Douglas Kline wrote: > > > > On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Douglas Kline wrote: > > > > > > > In order to test the substring attribute, I put the line > > > > > > > > search_algorithm: substring:.5 > > > > > > Did you change the existing search_algorithm line or add a new one? If yo u > > > added a new one, make sure that the old one is either removed or commente d > > > out. The default htdig.conf does explicitly specify this attribute. > > > > > > I deleted the previous line and then tried combining its contents, "exact:1 > > synonyms:0.5 endings:0.1", with the substring factor, then tried just "exac t:1" > > and the substring factor, and then tried just the substring factor, all to no > > avail. > > I am not sure what else to suggest other than taking yet another look > at the way you have things configured. You might want to try a cat -v > on your config file to make sure that you don't have any non-printing > characters fouling things up. Perhaps grab a clean copy of htdig.conf > and redo your edits. > > I just installed a fresh copy of 3.2.0b5, changed start_url to something > appropriate, and replaced the default search_algorithm attribute with > > search_algorithm: substring:0.5 > > Without doing anything else (other than indexing of course), substring > searching seems to be working fine. The list of displayed search terms > clearly show that the terms are being expanded from the substring that > I am providing.
You solved it. I had construed the documentation to mean that it was the htdig.conf for htsearch that was significant in enabling sub-string searching. So I explicitly used a different htdig.conf for htsearch from the one I was using for htdig. When I ran htdig with that definition of search_algorithm and then ran htsearch, also with that definition, it found strings other than complete words. Douglas ======== Douglas Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ ht://Dig general mailing list: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ht://Dig FAQ: http://htdig.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html List information (subscribe/unsubscribe, etc.) https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/htdig-general
