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- From: phurm@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Paul J Hurm)
- Subject: Symantic Q&A Question
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:59:35 GMT
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- Symantic Q&A help needed. (VER 4.0)
-
- I have a multi-word field that contains the description of a photograph.
- In many cases people's names will be part of the description.
-
- Q&A includes a soundex search whose syntax is "~soundslike". This works
- great if the field contains only one word. I have used the manual's
- examples with success.
-
- What I really want to do is perform a soundex search on the multi-word
- description field. This would enable finding a person's name if it is
- contained in the description field even if the exact spelling is not
- known.
-
- The "~soundslike" syntax does not work on the multi-word field. I
- suspect that the program is trying to produce a "sound" for the entire
- description field as a whole rather than looking at each word
- separately.
-
- You can search through a multi-line, multi-word field using the syntax
- "..search.." as long as you are trying to match the word "search".
- This seems to check every word in the multi-word field.
-
- QUESTION: Does anyone know a way to combine the ".." method with the
- soundex "~" method so that I can find a single word from within a
- multi-word field using a soundex match rather that a literal match?
-
- ANY thoughts would be appreciated but a speedy method is rather
- important since I will be searching through about 10K records.
-
- Paul J. Hurm !
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