1. RE: asearch
Hmm.
I see.
The ability to ignore results that match certain words.
And the ability to search for a particular phrase.
Nice.
I ask because I am rewriting asearch.
My version, atm, allows you to sort the results by:
Relativity - sorted by how many occurances of the keyword(s)
Author - sorted by the creator of the project
Name - sorted by the name of the project
Size - sorted by the size of the project
Date - sorted by date of the project
Platform - sorted by the platform for the project (Dos, Gen, Lnx,
Win)
MicroMoney - sorted by the amount of MicroMoney the project
Stamped - sorted by if the project is stamped or not
You can sort Ascending or Descending.
It has the same look as the RDS asearch and runs just as fast (maybe a
little faster or a little slower. It is kind of hard to tell).
In my tests, it mostly beats RDS's asearch but it fluncuates.
My website is down atm so I can't put it up for everyone to check out
but hopefully it will be back up soon.
It functions a bit differently than RDS's asearch.
RDS's searches for whole words if it is under 4 characters.
Mine does not. Should it?
Here is my thought of the excluding items from search idea..
You would enter 'editor -syntax-' and it will search for "editor" and
trash any results that have "syntax" in them.
Or..
You enter '"syntax highlighting" -"Text of almost any size can be
edited"-'
It will search for "syntax hilighting" and exclude any results that
contain "Text of almost any size can be edited"
No need for the '+' 
Thanks for the response!
I would appreciate any ideas anyone else has to offer.
Maybe RDS will use it as the official Archive search engine ??
Thanks for reading and responding!
Robert Szalay
cafromsw at yahoo.com wrote:
> I hoping replying to the list with this is ok. I
> would like to be able to do a search like this:
>
> +draganddrop +"drag and drop" -listview
>
> which would hopefully give me everything on
> draganddrop and "drag and drop" not concerning
> listviews. Which probably wouldn't be very much but
> you get the idea. I appologize in advance if that
> functionality is there and I just haven't figured out
> how to use it. Thanks Chris
> cafromsw at yahoo.com
>
> --- Robert Szalay <robsz1 at hotpop.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello list.
> >
> > Just wondering..
> >
> > What kind of features do you guys and gals think
> > should be in asearch
> > (the
> > Archive search engine on the rds site) ?
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Robert Szalay
> >
> >
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> > FREE!
> >
> >
2. RE: asearch
> I ask because I am rewriting asearch.
> My version, atm, allows you to sort the results by:
Robert, sounds sweeet! Bring it!
> It functions a bit differently than RDS's asearch.
> RDS's searches for whole words if it is under 4 characters.
> Mine does not. Should it?
I want to be able to search for "graph" and get "graphical" and "graphics"
and "graphs"... is that what you mean? If I use quotes, however, that means
exact match.
> Here is my thought of the excluding items from search idea..
> You would enter 'editor -syntax-' and it will search for "editor" and
> trash any results that have "syntax" in them.
Usually that would be
editor NOT syntax
or somesuch.
> You enter '"syntax highlighting" -"Text of almost any size can be
> edited"-'
>
> It will search for "syntax hilighting" and exclude any results that
> contain "Text of almost any size can be edited"
Yeah, that's right.
> Maybe RDS will use it as the official Archive search engine ??
I bet he will.
3. RE: asearch
C. K. Lester wrote:
> > It functions a bit differently than RDS's asearch.
> > RDS's searches for whole words if it is under 4 characters.
> > Mine does not. Should it?
>
> I want to be able to search for "graph" and get "graphical" and
> "graphics"
> and "graphs"... is that what you mean? If I use quotes, however, that
> means
> exact match.
Well. If you were to search for "label make" (with the qoutes)
It would return "label maker"
It just has to find the string anywere in the archive.
>
> > Here is my thought of the excluding items from search idea..
> > You would enter 'editor -syntax-' and it will search for "editor" and
> > trash any results that have "syntax" in them.
>
> Usually that would be
>
> editor NOT syntax
>
> or somesuch.
Hmm. Good point.
Thanks for the response,
Robert Szalay
4. RE: asearch
Robert Craig wrote:
> Robert Szalay writes:
> > Maybe RDS will use it as the official Archive search engine ??
>
> I'd like to see it.
>
> If it's significantly better, we'll use it.
>
> If it's marginally better, probably not,
> since it will cost me extra time in future
> maintenance efforts.
>
> By the way, speed is not an issue for the file archive search.
> It currently uses about 0.1 seconds to search the EDS database.
> Any other delay you see is network delay.
Is that so.
Well. That makes sense. I'm sure the server is a lot faster than my
computer. On my computer, it takes about 2.5 - 3 seconds for it to do
the search. (120mhz, 96mb ram, Win98SE)
I borrowed the lower() that you used in asearch after i tested and found
it was faster. (on my computer, beat wildcard.e's lower by about 12
seconds over 100,000 passes)
Maybe it should become the official lower() ?
Q: Are you going to get rid of some of the include files ?
Some of the stuff seems to me that it should be built-in.
Thanks,
Robert Szalay
5. RE: asearch
Yes. There are a couple problems with this.
This would mean that either:
a. The layout of the database would have to be changed so that it
holds a list of routines.
b. The script would have to unzip(if needed) and scan all the files
for the routine witch would take quite a while im sure (1,000s of files
to scan)
Of coarse option a would be the better choice.
Not saying it is not possible. Just not too likely to happen.
[update]
I have implemented string searching and abliity to exclude words.
a search for "win32 NOT win32lib" will return all results containing
win32 but not win32lib.
you must use "NOT " to exclude a word.(case sensitive)
besides that, it is case-insensitive.
Working on some bugs at the moment.
Regards,
Robert Szalay
Pete Lomax wrote:
> Tell you what would be real nice.
>
> List programs that use a specified function or procedure, eg
> getPrintChoice (obviously only when the source is distributed).
>
> I can see that might be just a tad tricky.
>
> Pete
>
>
6. RE: asearch
What about integrating some of guru.ex into the archive search engine? I think
that would be quite interesting to see how well it performed.
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