Heya Jens,

Actually, I'm having the problem where no records get returned, when I 
query for the full number: 123-45-55555 for example.

M.

Jens Kraemer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:24:02PM +0200, Michael Leung wrote:
>> 
>> Hey again Jens,
>> 
>> Strange, I no longer get an error when I reference the constant for 
>> untokenized by the fully qualified name as you suggested, but results 
>> still do not come back when searching with hyphens.
> 
> maybe the problem isn't tokenization-related, but you're trying to
> search for a substring of the phone number not beginning at the first
> character ?
> 
> example:
> if your indexed value is '123-45-55555',
> a search for '123*' or '123-45*' should find the record, but a search
> for '45*' won't. Is this the behaviour you experience ?
> 
> Wildcards at the beginning, as in '*45*', don't always work. There
> currently is another thread about this topic, it's unclear if this is
> supposed to work or not atm, hope Dave can shed some light on this).
> 
> To be able to search only for area code or phone number, you should
> tokenize the phone number into parts (split at the hyphens).
> 
> Jens
> 
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