----- Original Message ----- 
From: Scott A Crosby <crosby at qwes.math.cmu.edu>
To: Benoit St-Jean <bstjean at yahoo.com>
Cc: <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [BETA][DOCS] Design decisions for the full text indexers.

> 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.

You should be able to support some regular expression search ability based on matching words to the search terms, then from those finding the documents living in the intersection of the matching search terms.

- les