Thank you both very much for your help.
having your indexing process emit a .pl file you can require is an elegant way to load those arrays.

Thank you, that's smart, I can add that to the indexer easily. That file just reads:
@myarrayoffilenames= qw(

the list of filenames

);
right? It doesn't need to be a fully-fledged file with a #! line and everything else?

Consider using a set of "stop words" -- words that are so common that they're liable to occur in nearly every document (e.g., "a an are in it is the this")

I've already limited the index to words of four letters or more, with some exceptions, but you're quite right, there are lots of words which are in every file so I can cut major chunks out of the index, by hand, right now!

In reply to Re: (dws)Re: Search Engines for Dummies by hostile17
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