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I was wondering how the "similar word" search is supposed to work. I did a test on the GT demo, where I searched for "ho" (Find similar words was selected) and there were no matches.

If I searched the same way for "hou" , then "house", "houses" houjune" would show up in a search. Does there have to be a minimum of 3 characters in a search term for it to find similar words?

Bryan

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Hi,

Yes, Links SQL only indexes words of at least 3 characters.

Cheers,

Alex

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Hello Alex,

It's index with at least 3 characters, but how can we make it possible to search with 2 characters ?


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Hi,

Right now it's in the code. You would need to go to admin/GT/SQL/Indexer.pm and change:

Code:
(length($word) < 3 and $code = 'TOOSMALL' ) or
to
Code:
(length($word) < 2 and $code = 'TOOSMALL' ) or
Cheers,

Alex

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sounds like another configuration variable :) <G>



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Will this change how the Spider database indexes itself, or do I have to make changes somewhere else to get it to index two character words?

Sean