Terry,
Is there a reason you wouldn't use a stemming analyzer of some kind,
which would match cat and cats but not cater, catches, etc?
http://snowball.tartarus.org/demo.php
Marvin Humphrey
Rectangular Research
http://www.rectangular.com/
On Feb 21, 2006, at 3:13 PM, Terry Steichen wrote:
No, I don't think that the riot* option would work for many
queries. Let's take a simple case where you want a singular or
plural form, like either cat or cats (which would be very common).
With 1.4.x, you can use cat? to retrieve such matches. With the
new change, you need to use (cat cats) or (cat cat?). If you use
cat*, you'll get a million matches you don't want (cater, catches,
catwoman, category, catatonic, cataclysm, catamount, etc.). Or,
take a case where you want to retrieve terms like elder, elderly,
elders but do not want things like elderberry, elderdice. Or you
want gun or guns, but not gunmen, gunshots, gunfire, gunpoint,
gunston, etc.
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