Ack, after reading through the MySQL docs it seems as though the full text searching does not meet my requirements =(. search string such as "this really blows !stupid fun" and get back matches for: 
will return: 
"/data2/studio/projects/clientname/print/this really/funermaker/santa 
+blows/thefile.tif"
exists on Archive-dvd-000002122

but not this:
"/data2/studio/projects/clientname/print/this really/funermaker/santa 
+blows stupid/thefile.tif"
because it has stupid in the fq file name.

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 You see I need to be able to substring search quickly and it looks to only support full word matches, or using the * boolean full-text search capability operator I can do for example fun* to match "funny" or "fungle" but i do not see a way to match "Senior Howfun" -- do you have any insight?

I know I can fall back to using LIKE statments to do basicly the same thing i am doing in the original post, but it seems like that would just add the overhead of a DB to do the same thing -- any ideas?

-Waswas

In reply to Re: Re: Complicated searches in a very large text file. by waswas-fng
in thread Complicated searches in a very large text file. by waswas-fng

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