Follow up to this,

When I do the soundex search with year=(199*) it finds lots of hits where
year is not like 199* (eg year is 2002)!

Curiouser and curiouser.

David


On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, David Hoare wrote:

> Hi, I am new to swish-e and I must say I am verry impressed so far.
> 
> We are running SWISH-E 2.1-dev-25 on Redhat Linux 7.2
> 
> I have two configuration files which differ only in the switching on of 
> UseSoundex. I have set up MetaNames "year" and "athr" which are extracted 
> from the file path via
> 
> MetaNames year athr
> PropertyNames year athr
> ExtractPath year regex !^/.*/[a-z]/([0-9]+)/.+$!$1!
> ExtractPath athr regex !^/.+/(authors).html$!$1!
> 
> 
> When I search with the nosoundex index for this search I get lots of hits 
> 
> ./bin/swish-e -P ^ -f ./indexfiles/nosoundex.index -w "(smith) athr=authors  and  year=(199* or 2000 or 2001 or 2002)"
> 
> If I do the same search with the soundex file I get no hits 
> 
> ./bin/swish-e -P ^ -f ./indexfiles/soundex.index -w "(smith) athr=authors  and  year=(199* or 2000 or 2001 or 2002)"
> 
> However if I  specify only one year value it works -
> 
> ./bin/swish-e -P ^ -f ./indexfiles/soundex.index -w "(smith) athr=authors and  year=(199*)"
> 
> 
> Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> 
> David
> 
> 

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