On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Amir E. Aharoniamir.aharoni@gmail.com wrote:
- The info won't be up-to-date. Would it be too much to ask to search
the database directly using regexes?
What's your use case? Obviously all the points below are valid and rule out directly regex searching on the entire Wikipedia database, for instance, but I wonder if you could have hybrid cases like "return pages that contain X and regex Y". Since X can be indexed, you're immediately working on a (much) smaller subset.
(Then again, AWB already supports this I think)
Not sure what cases you need full regex for though. Obviously regexes like "foo(.*)bar" have wide applicability...but the more esoteric forms?
Steve