Hi Richard
Glad I was able to shine some light on this issue - but what you've found is
also absolutely correct.
I guess you'll need to do your own query term splitting and add stars in - but
you will probably want to add hyphens as well, to avoid Sphinx treating them as
boolean operators.
Cheers
--
Pat
On 25/07/2010, at 8:22 AM, Richard wrote:
> Thanks Pat,
>
> Your dedication to dealing with the issues through this group is
> amazing.
>
> Thanks for your advice on the below, I tried to escape the hyphen's
> with no joy. It seems it is the star_query method in search.rb which
> is causing the - to split up the query. Your funky regular expression
> is what splits it and loops the elements into individual starred
> queried such as
>
> Sphinx Querying: '*YS*-*RSL*-*F084*'
>
> where I am wanting to get
>
> Sphinx Querying: '*YS-RSL-F084*'
>
> Cheers
>
> Richard
>
>
> def star_query(query)
> token = options[:star].is_a?(Regexp) ? options[:star] : /\w+/u
>
> query.gsub(/("#{token}(.*?#{token})?"|(?![!-])#{token})/u) do
> pre, proper, post = $`, $&, $'
> # E.g. "@foo", "/2", "~3", but not as part of a token
> is_operator = pre.match(%r{(\W|^)[...@~/]\Z})
> # E.g. "foo bar", with quotes
> is_quote = proper.starts_with?('"') && proper.ends_with?
> ('"')
> has_star = pre.ends_with?("*") || post.starts_with?("*")
> if is_operator || is_quote || has_star
> proper
> else
> "*#{proper}*"
> end
> end
> end
>
> On Jul 17, 12:03 pm, Pat Allan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Richard
>>
>> There's no way to customise how :star behaves, so you're going to have to
>> add the stars in yourself. Also, keep in mind that - could be treated as a
>> special character by Sphinx if you're using the extended match mode (which
>> is necessary for matching on certain fields - ie: the :conditions option),
>> and so you need to escape them. Riddle.escape does this - but if you want to
>> manage it yourself, it's just done by adding a \ in front of each -.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>> Pat
>>
>> On 17/07/2010, at 1:34 AM, Richard wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> When searching for a product eg YS-RSL-F084 when I use :star => true
>>> in the search, looking at the logs it is actually searching for
>>
>>> *YS*-*RSL*-*F084*
>>
>>> So you know why this is and how to fix it??
>>
>>> Cheers
>>
>>> Richard
>>
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