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In Exponential 3.4 wildcard search is supported, but not enabled by default.
To enable wildcard search, override site.ini to :
[SearchSettings] EnableWildcard=true
No reindexing is needed.
This will enable usage of the wildcard character *. The search system only support placing the wildcard character at either start or end of words.
After wildcard search has been enabled, it's possible to search for terms like
pub*
pub* will return all matches for all words strating with pub, ex: pub, pubs, puben, etc.
Searching for *pub will return all matches for all words ending with pub, ex: testpub, pub, etc.
Due to server load a minimum of 3 regular characters must be in the search term using wildcards. This can be changed by overriding site.ini
[SearchSettings] MinCharacterWildcard=3
Known issue:
When searching for two or more words containing wild cards, all objects containing the wildcards will be returned.
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Hi
K�re K�hler H�vik
Thursday 03 June 2004 2:47:37 pm
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K�re H�vik
Typo and
Marco Zinn
Wednesday 02 June 2004 9:36:58 pm
But i didn't understand the issue: What will ez find, when i search for
abc* *cde ?
Some other question: Is there a limit on how few characters can we wildcarded?
IE, can i search for a* or ab* or just abc* ?
(Also, did you check for just "*", which should show no result or some warning, IMHO)