Swish supports indexing arbitrary items, not just files. If you disect the innerts of SWISH::API::Common, you'll see that it puts a 'streamer' into swish's config file.

The 'streamer' is a program that prints out the text data that's supposed to be indexed, plus some meta data. Check out the file_stream method in SWISH::API::Common: 

     print "Path-Name: $file\n",
           "Document-Type: TXT*\n",
           "Content-Length: $size\n\n";
     print $data;

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So, unless you want to put your text snippets into files, there'll be some additional work involved, but it should be easy.

In reply to Re^3: Google-like query of ASCII text with Text::Query or other modules by saintmike
in thread Google-like query of ASCII text with Text::Query or other modules by jbullock35

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