Searching Word Breaks

Searching - Word Breaks

FieldNameword=XX

Normally WebCatalog searches for any text in a field, regardless of where it is in a sentence or even if it is in the middle of a word. You can tell WebCatalog to search for whole words (letters surround by spaces, commas, etc) or only the beginning of a word by setting word-break options.

New for 2.1: You can define your own custom list of word break characters with <fieldname>wbrk=<list of chars>. So adding Descriptionwbrk=.,- to your search will cause text in the Description field that is surrounded by those characters to be considered as individual words.

If your database has a field called "Description", and you want to look for records that contain "graph" only at the beginning of words in the Description field, the URL would look like this:

http://Results.tpl?command=search&woDescriptiondata=graph&Descriptionword=sw&db=SomeDatabase.db

word
Description

ss
substring match

Descriptionword=ss will look for "graphic" and find anywhere inside "I like typographic conventions" and "This is a graphic" and "Graphical user interfaces are cool"

ww
whole word match (can be modified with wbrk to define word-break characters)

Descriptionword=ww will look for "graphic" and will not find it inside "I like typographic conventions". It will be found inside "This is a graphic"

sw
start of word (can be modified with wbrk to define word-break characters)

Descriptionword=sw will look for "graphic" at the beginning of words, like "This is a graphic" and "Graphical user interfaces are good", but will not find it inside "I like typographic conventions"

word	Description
ss	substring match Descriptionword=ss will look for "graphic" and find anywhere inside "I like typographic conventions" and "This is a graphic" and "Graphical user interfaces are cool"
ww	whole word match (can be modified with wbrk to define word-break characters) Descriptionword=ww will look for "graphic" and will not find it inside "I like typographic conventions". It will be found inside "This is a graphic"
sw	start of word (can be modified with wbrk to define word-break characters) Descriptionword=sw will look for "graphic" at the beginning of words, like "This is a graphic" and "Graphical user interfaces are good", but will not find it inside "I like typographic conventions"