Re: Searching Text in words

From: ddf <oratune_at_msn.com>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 06:34:09 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <889eed23-cef6-41e3-9b14-bf57f69a3852@q26g2000prq.googlegroups.com>


On Oct 9, 6:51 am, zien <tldarw..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 8, 3:40 pm, artme..._at_yahoo.com wrote:
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> > Hi,
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> > 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.
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> > If I put in Bu, I'd get a match on Best Buy, but not Lehman
> > Brothers.....
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> > 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.
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> > We are on 10g R2.
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> > Still searching, but has anyone ever done this?
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> hi can u help me- Hide quoted text -
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No, since you can't post the problem you're experiencing in a new thread. Adding such ambiguous and unrelated text to existing threads is wrong.

David Fitzjarrell Received on Thu Oct 09 2008 - 08:34:09 CDT

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