No regular expressions or wildcards
You cannot use regular expressions or wildcards such as ? or *. If you don't know what that is, don't worry about it. To search for pages with the words "boat" or "boats" search like this: "boat or boats".
See reference here - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Searching
Maurice Joseph SpikeSource, Inc developer.spikesource.com
Hello,
I have read all mediawiki pages, that talk about searching in mediawiki.
Can you tell me how to enable a substring-search in mediawiki 1.5rc4?
When i write in the search box "austin" , then the software found the word, but when i write "austi*", the last character replace to a wildcard, then the software found nothing.
The Database MYSQL 4.1.13 find the string in the searchindex table (tested with my own select). I have checked the query with logging and in the query is no wildcard. The searchengine has delete the wildcard .
In the software of Wikipedia is working correct.
What must i do, then the software is working correct?
Thank you for your time and help.
Mit freundlichen Grüssen / Kind regards
i.A. Thomas Klein OPS Koordination / OPS coordination
EAE software GmbH Kornkamp 8 22926 Ahrensburg/Germany
Tel : +49 4102/480-513 Fax: +49 4102/480-561 e-mail: mailto:klein.thomas@eae.com http://www.eae.com/
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