Hello Steve, Your suggestion works like a charm, I am now trying to get my head around your following statement, I can't seem to get a grip on what you mean. Is there anyway you could elaborate a little on the following? It would be really nice if I could get the solution to work with full text and be able to use stemming etc.
> where document_id is a foreign key pointing at the table containing your fulltext. This would be easier to extend to handle synonym handling too, and you could do all the suffix handling/stemming you need (eg; to take care of plurals). I've done something like that as well, and included an extra field for the metaphone version of the word, to match approximate spellings. If the text fields were all in plain text, you could even include character positions like Kind regards, Taco Fleur Free Call 1800 032 982 or Mobile 0421 851 786 Pacific Fox http://www.pacificfox.com.au an industry leader with commercial IT experience since 1994 . * Web Design and Development * SMS Solutions, including developer API * Domain Registration, .COM for as low as fifteen dollars a year, .COM.AU for fifty dollars two years! -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]