Thomas den Braber wrote on 5/14/09 2:21 AM:
> HI,
> 
> I found a strange behavior when doing an exact search in an metafield.
> 
> I have done:
> 
>  PropertyNamesIgnoreCase persons
>  MetaNames persons
> 
> I add a value of:  M. Jones  in persons and do an exact search for
> 
>  persons="M. Jones"  this will find no hits
> 
> If I do persons="M Jones" it will also find nothing
> Only persons="Jones" will work
> 
> If I add the value M Jones  ( without the .) in the persons field,
> then a search for: persons="M Jones" will give hits (even if I search for
> persons="M. Jones")
> 
> I use:
> 
> WordCharacters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_&
> 
> IgnoreFirstChar .-_$&
> IgnoreLastChar  .-_&
> 
> BeginCharacters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789
> 
> I would think that the . is just stripped if you add "M. Jones" so you
> could search for persons="M Jones" would give results
> 
> It looks like if an . is in the value then an exact search will not work
> anymore
> 
> Any clue ?
> 

are you running the query from the command line? did you single quote the entire
query to make sure the shell isn't interpreting the double quotes? notice the
example below:

[karpet@pekmac:~/tmp]$ swish-e -w jones
# SWISH format: 2.4.7
# Search words: jones
# Removed stopwords:
err: no results
.
[karpet@pekmac:~/tmp]$ swish-e -w persons=jones
# SWISH format: 2.4.7
# Search words: persons=jones
# Removed stopwords:
# Number of hits: 1
# Search time: 0.000 seconds
# Run time: 0.004 seconds
1000 jones.xml "jones.xml" 42
.
[karpet@pekmac:~/tmp]$ swish-e -w persons="M Jones"
# SWISH format: 2.4.7
# Search words: persons=M Jones
# Removed stopwords:
err: no results
.
[karpet@pekmac:~/tmp]$ swish-e -w 'persons="M Jones"'
# SWISH format: 2.4.7
# Search words: persons="M Jones"
# Removed stopwords:
# Number of hits: 1
# Search time: 0.001 seconds
# Run time: 0.006 seconds
1000 jones.xml "jones.xml" 42
.
[karpet@pekmac:~/tmp]$ swish-e -w 'persons="M. Jones"'
# SWISH format: 2.4.7
# Search words: persons="M. Jones"
# Removed stopwords:
# Number of hits: 1
# Search time: 0.000 seconds
# Run time: 0.009 seconds
1000 jones.xml "jones.xml" 42
.
[karpet@pekmac:~/tmp]$ cat jones.conf
PropertyNamesIgnoreCase persons
MetaNames persons
DefaultContents XML*
WordCharacters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789-_&
IgnoreFirstChar .-_$&
IgnoreLastChar  .-_&
BeginCharacters abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789
[karpet@pekmac:~/tmp]$ cat jones.xml
<doc>
 <persons>M. Jones</persons>
</doc>
[karpet@pekmac:~/tmp]$
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