Dermot wrote: > > This is a slighty OT query. > > I am looking for a text search engine that has a Perl interface. I > have found a few, Lucene, OpenFTS and Swish-E. OpenFTS hasn't had a > release of the last 3 years. That makes me nervous about using it. > Lucene is java based. I have zero java experience but there is Perl > Module into a 'C++ port API of Lucene'. There is also a thread on > perlmonks about the performance penalty of tying Perl to Java. I am a > bit surprised that the there isn't a more native Perl text search > engine given Perl's agility with text strings. > > Could anyone recommend any of the above or suggest an alternative?
Xapian? http://xapian.org/ HTH, Rob -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
