On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Benoit St-Jean wrote:

> --- Scott A Crosby <crosby at qwes.math.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> What about supporting regular expressions?  Couldn't
> we reuse Vassili's regex code and "add it" to your
> adaptor classes ?
>

Sorry.. No luck.. How the indexer works is, for each word, it keeps track
of what documents its in. Thus, there is no way to do regexp searching.

The only way I know of to get full regexp searching is to scan each
document... which is what we wish to avoid.


Scott