> On Aug 18, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> > wrote: > > Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > > > Does anyone know if there a solution that search indexes folders of > > HTML files that I can implement into Livecode? And also handles > > non-English text? > > I've written a few specialized search engines and just started another one > the other day for more general-purpose needs. The upside is that it handles > HTML along with some other formats, but the downside is it's decidedly > English-centric (I use a Porter stemmer, and while I've considered using his > variants for other Latin-based languages I have no such facility for > languages like Chinese).
I’m not needing stemming, just a simple exact string search. I see that stemming is very difficult in Chinese. > > Scott's tool seems pretty nice. Any chance you could just import your data > into cards to use that? That would seem to be a way of doing it. I’ll try it. Thanks. > > By "thousands", just how many thousands? I’ve not kept track of how many. In running this script again I see that whereas in LC 6 the screen was locked, in LC 8 the screen is unlocking which is slowing it way down. > Maybe the simplest solution for somewhat large collections would be the > free-text indexing built into SQLite. Anyone here know if we have a means of > using that from within LC? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
