Re: [FWP] keyword parser for search engine

[Tom Shinnick <tshinnic@io.com>]

At 09:00 PM 01/07/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm not sure if there is need for one in module form, but I've written a
>keyword parser for search engines that work on a simple level of wildcard
>expansion.

Have you taken a look at Text::Query package?  It does some
interesting translations into regular expressions.  What I
remember is being impressed with the handling of the boolean
operators AND, OR, NOT.  I don't remember if they go into as
much detail regarding word boundaries, etc.

CCed to jeffp@crusoe.net

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