in reply to Re: Trying to Debug DB Search
in thread Trying to Debug DB Search

One mistake I see in your code is this:
my @words = split /\s*(,|\s+)/, $query;
I think you want:
my @words = split /\s*(?:,|\s+)/, $query;
If you have capturing parens in your split regex, what they capture gets returned also! You don't want commas and whitespace in your @words array, do you? As for the Text::English problem, I can't figure out why the module would load without incident but stem() not exist.

Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart

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Re^3: Trying to Debug DB Search
by Cappadonna3030 (Sexton) on Oct 27, 2005 at 01:21 UTC
    Turns out that someone removed the English pm from my server. I put it back. (I'm the programmer, its my party.) Now it fails on the email searches.
      You've got
      if ($type = "email") { ... } if ($type = "article") { ... }
      Those = signs are ASSIGNING to $type, not comparing. You want the 'eq' operator to compare strings for equality.

      Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
      How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart
      Another problem is:
      my $statement1 = "SELECT files FROM catalog WHERE words LIKE %".$word. +"%"; $sth1 = $dbh -> prepare($statement1); $sth1 -> execute();
      I don't think SELECT files FROM catalog WHERE words LIKE %something% is valid SQL. The %something% needs to be quoted. Which leads me to placeholders.
      my $find_files = $dbh->prepare(q{ SELECT files FROM catalog WHERE words LIKE ? }); for my $w (@words) { $find_files->execute("%$w%"); while (my ($file) = $find_files->fetchrow_array) { ... } }
      You run into a similar problem later:
      $sth2 = $dbh ->prepare("select filename, type from library where filename = $file_index and".$rule_append);
      I'm guessing $file_index is a string, not a number, which will lead you to another SQL syntax error. Placeholders are your friends. I would create a hash with the three possible SQL statements, already prepared:
      my %search_library = ( email => $dbh->prepare(q{ SELECT filename, type FROM library WHERE filename = ? AND filetype = 'email' }), article => $dbh->prepare(q{ SELECT filename, type FROM library WHERE filename = ? AND filetype = 'article' }), both => $dbh->prepare(q{ SELECT filename, type FROM library WHERE filename = ? AND (filetype = 'email' OR filetype = 'article') }), );
      Now you can just do:
      for my $w (@words) { $find_files->execute("%$w%"); while (my ($file) = $find_files->fetchrow_array) { for my $f (split /:/, $file) { $search_library{$type}->execute($f); if (my @rec = $search_library{$type}->fetchrow_array) { $match{$rec[0]} = $rec[1]; } } } }
      Another comment is that I don't know why you're fetching 'filename' from the library table when you're using it to find the columns, unless you're looking to get the normalized value of it (that is, the value as it appears in the database, since your database might be case insensitive).

      Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
      How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart