"ZVW (Carsten Blees)" wrote:
> 
> 'lo there,
> 
> 'til now (i'm quite new to htdig)
> I couldn't find any information about searching for
> parts or wildcards of words/strings, like
> 
> germ*
> 
> would find germany, germ, germanic and so on...
> 
> is there any feature like this in htdig?

Yes.  It is called "prefix matching" here.


> if yes, what's the syntax?

The same syntax you used in your example ;-)


> if not, why? =8)

You need to specify the search algorithm in the configuration
file.  Prefix matching slows down the search process, especially
on huge databases.  Therefore it is not enabled by default.

Have a look at the online documentation,
        http://www.htdig.org/attrs.html#search_algorithm


hth,

  Torsten

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