[Mediawiki-l] search for portion of word

Jeff Campbell jeffc at informatics.jax.org
Tue May 6 12:44:01 UTC 2008


I think to use the wildcard you need to install an extension for it. I 
also believe I read something about a search issue with version 1.11 
that got fixed in 1.12. You might want to check that out.

Jeff

Rowe, Dolores A wrote:
> Thank you for your suggestion below.
> That did not work for me.
> Any other suggestions to get this to work ?
>
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> Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 10:35:12 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Shannon Bohle <shannon_bohle at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Searching for a portion of a word
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> You need to use a wildcard, designated by an asterisk. 
>    
>   For search returns that include "fellow" and "fellows", try fellow*
>   For search returns that include "fellows" and "fellowship", try
> fellows* 
>
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