Re: Simple Text Indexing

cyocum, It would really help if you explained more
in depth what exactly you need to do. Do you really
need to find the offset of a word or can the users
be content with knowingh which doc the word is in?

Perhaps if you don't have a lot of data you could perform
a regular grep on all the files each time ( perhaps even
outsorce it to a shell command, be careful though...)

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Re: Re: Simple Text Indexing by cyocum (Curate) on Dec 01, 2003 at 09:10 UTC
What I need it to do is not only tell me if a word is in a file but where in that file the word appears. I am a historian. Knowing that a word is in a file is completely useless to me unless I know where in that file it is so that I can read the information myself. With small files, this is not a problem since I can quickly find it but with medium and large size files it is useless. Like I said, I could just use the find feature of my favorite text editor however I would like to be able to search over multiple files since, especally with the annals, I need to know if something shows up in other files. Also, I am on WinXP so shell commands are not exactly an option.	[reply]

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Re: Re: Simple Text Indexing
by cyocum (Curate) on Dec 01, 2003 at 09:10 UTC

What I need it to do is not only tell me if a word is in a file but where in that file the word appears. I am a historian. Knowing that a word is in a file is completely useless to me unless I know where in that file it is so that I can read the information myself. With small files, this is not a problem since I can quickly find it but with medium and large size files it is useless. Like I said, I could just use the find feature of my favorite text editor however I would like to be able to search over multiple files since, especally with the annals, I need to know if something shows up in other files. Also, I am on WinXP so shell commands are not exactly an option.

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