You are right, we had also just come across that bug. At this point the
IGNORELASTCHAR does not apply to META names, and the quick solution is to
leave out the commas; however a patch that fixes the problem will be
available soon.
Giulia
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On Sat, 20 Sep 1997, John Coleman wrote:
> I'm wondering if the IGNORELASTCHAR should apply to Meta tag searches?
>
> I get inconsistent results if commas are used to seperate meta names.
>
> A search for "animals" as a meta word does not return a page with
> "animals," in the meta tag. Vice-versa is also true
>
> http://www.library.yale.edu/~coleman/swish/searchtemplate.htm
>
> Also, on the page with commas, the other 2 meta tags cannot be searched at
> all:
> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>THIS IS A META TAG TEST WITH COMMAS IN THE META
> TAG</TITLE>
> <META NAME="DC.subject" CONTENT="mickey mouse"> <META NAME="keywords"
> CONTENT="fishing, yale, animals,">
>
> Is the answer to leave out the commas? Convention seems to be to put them
> in, or am I missing something?
>
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>
>
Received on Sat Sep 20 09:34:00 1997