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Search module / why cannot search for partial occurence of a phrase?

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:14 pm
by docman
Hi, I wonder if anyone would have some suggestion as to how to improve on the Search module in sence of enabling it for searching for the partial occurence of a search term.

An example:

Search term="global"
The occurrence of the word "globalism" is verified in one of the contents.
Currently the module return a result=NULL.

What would be more useful is:

Search term="global"
The occurrence of the word "globalism" is verified in one of the contents.
Result="globalism".

Thanks a lot.

Re: Search module / why cannot search for partial occurence of a phrase?

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:01 pm
by jmcgin51
I believe the current search is for exact matches, rather than fuzzy matches.

This has been discussed before, and if you search the forums, I think you'll find a hack that implements fuzzy searching.  Use at your own risk.

[SOLVED] Search module / why cannot search for partial occurence of a phrase?

Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 2:12 pm
by docman
Thanks. I look more in depth, then.

Re: Search module / why cannot search for partial occurence of a phrase?

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:07 am
by cyberman
You can try pisearch module ... it's older, but has some more options.

Re: Search module / why cannot search for partial occurence of a phrase?

Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 10:23 am
by docman
Thanks. I will look into it.