[ic] swish search and parentheses - bug?
Dan Bergan
dan at berganconsulting.com
Thu Jun 1 15:47:15 EDT 2006
I was looking through my interchange search log and noticed a strange
result. One of my customers searched for something like the following:
term1 term2 (term3)
That search returned zero results. All three terms were valid and
should have been found, so I did some testing and found that if I entered:
term1 term2 term3
I would find results, but if I included the parentheses then it would
return zero results.
(by the way, I also tried this on the icdevgroup.org site and I'm seeing
the same results.)
I tried to run the swish search at the command line, and I received the
following:
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(t'
So, it looks like quotes are needed around the entire phrase if
parentheses are used. (The search worked fine from the command line
with "term1 term2 (term3)"). But, I don't think my users are
sophisticated enough to be using complex boolean searches anyway, so, I
guess my question is: can someone give me some pointers on how to strip
out those characters before the search executes?
Thanks,
Dan Bergan
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