From the Swish docs, 
The wildcard (*) is available, however it can only be used at the end 
+of a word: otherwise is is considerd a normal character (i.e. can be 
+searched for if included in the WordCharacters directive). 

        swish-e -w "librarian" -f myIndex
 


this query only retrieves files which contain the given word. 

On the other hand: 

        swish-e -w "librarian*" -f myIndex
 


retrieves ``librarians'', ``librarianship'', etc. along with ``librari
+an''.

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 So how would you go about having a search string such as "test and apple" be able to match on a document conatining "an apple is good to eat when they come from the grabaltester reigon of madeupcountry."

-Waswas

In reply to Re: Re: 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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