searching misspelled words

kdua · Post by **kdua** » Mon Jul 23, 2001 4:17 pm

<sum "%s" "%" "barters syndrome">
which sets the default 80% pattern matching for the search query-Barters syndorme
But its not pulling up the bartters syndrome(actual spelling) page.
Am i missing something here?

Post by **mark** » Mon Jul 23, 2001 4:43 pm

query protection. special pattern matchers are not allowed by default.
View the source of the results page in your browser and you will see html comments indicating the error.

See
http://www.thunderstone.com/site/vortexman/node95.html

kdua · Post by **kdua** » Mon Jul 23, 2001 4:54 pm

The error message says...'%query would require linear processing'
Is there anyway to catch misspelled words?
Thanks again

Post by **Kai** » Mon Jul 23, 2001 5:38 pm

Again, see the above URL on query protection. A linear processed search cannot use an index at all, and can take substantially longer than an indexed search; therefore linear searches are disabled by default for protection. A special pattern matcher term (REX, NPM, XPM) used by itself in a query will require a linear search and cannot use an index.