Hi!

On Oct 26, Oscar Nelson wrote:
> At 09:40 PM 10/26/2001 +0200, Sergei Golubchik wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >On Oct 26, Oscar Nelson wrote:
> > > Full text searches in MySQL are limited to 4 characters or more. Is there
> > > any simple
> > > work around to lower this limit to three characters or more? If there is
> > > not, does anyone have any pointers as to where I should start poking around
> > > in the code?
> >
> >Yes! But these pointers are hidden deep inside MySQL manual :-)
> >Look for them in the "Fulltext search" section.
> 
> I've been through this section of the manual, starting with: 
> http://www.mysql.com/doc/F/u/Fulltext_Search.html which states that,
> "Any 'word' that is present in the stopword list or just too short (3 
> characters or less) is ignored."
> 
> I didn't make myself really clear in my question. I would like to include 
> words that are 3 characters in a FULLTEXT index.

http://www.mysql.com/doc/F/u/Fulltext_Fine-tuning.html
It's for 4.0.0

if you have 3.23 - consult the same section in your local copy of the
manual.

Regards,
Sergei

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