On 22 Jan 2002, Cees de Groot wrote:

>
> Now, before I go and hack something simplistic (I'm thinking about a
> simple word index with frequencies, and being too lazy for a real
> persistence engine and recognizing that reiserfs really is a database,
> it'll be spread out over an awful lot of files ;-)), is there a decent
> text indexing/searching package available for Smalltalk or Squeak?

Hack'er one up yourself? Reverse indexes aren't all that slow or large.
Roughly comparable to the size of the origional data.

A reverse index is for each word, you link to a list (or rather, a set)
of things that include that word. Then do set union-disjunction operations
to implement boolean matching, prefix-matching, and substring matching.

I love languages with featureful internal libraries, I could probably code
up the engine myself in an afternoon.

Or, would you rather do it? (whats your luck in getting your stuff into
the image when you've completed it?)

Scott