Dear all,

Yes, my search script is giving my gyp again - It's actually because I don't know enough of what can and can't be done. I'm usually ok, given a bit of a help to get started - I think a push in the right direction is required!

My search script is a little too "rigid". If I search for "regular expression", it searches the documents on my site for the EXACT string, "regular expression" (both the words appearing on the page next to each other).

I wish to make it more flexible - allowing it to find, say, instances of "regular" AND "expression", not necessarily beside each other on the page.

My form code is pretty much standard - 

    if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq 'POST') {

    read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});

    @pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);

    foreach $pair (@pairs) {
        ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);
        $value =~ tr/+/ /;        
        $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;
        $value =~ s/["]//gi;
        $value =~ s/[+]/ /gi;

    $FORM{$name} = $value;
}
}

$keyword=$FORM{keyword};

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How would I go about creating an "AND" sort of search? I'm assuming it's something to do with what I've got above.

Many thanks (again)!

In reply to Form validation/Search script by No-Lifer

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