Re: Searching Text

From: Shakespeare <whatsin_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 16:34:33 +0200
Message-ID: <48ecc50a$0$199$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

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>
> Hi,
>
> I need to be able to search some text, basically company names, and
> I'm only looking to match on the first letter of each 'word'. So, if
> I was looking for B then International Business Machines would give me
> a match on the letter B in Business. If I was looking for 'N', then I
> would not get any match at all.
>
> I was looking at Oracle Text, but I think that is a bit much and
> complex for this application. I can parse each name on spaces and
> such and try it that way, but I was wondering if Oracle had a better
> way of doing it.
>
> We are on 10g R2.
>
> Still searching, but has anyone ever done this?

Please stop posting everything twice.

Shakespeare Received on Wed Oct 08 2008 - 09:34:33 CDT

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