Path: text.usenetserver.com!out01b.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!in02.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 07:40:59 -0600 Reply-To: "Tim Arnold" From: "Tim Arnold" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools References: <1165930187.037903.244430@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Oracle Text Front-end Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:38:19 -0500 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Lines: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.255.126.215 X-Trace: sv3-yiQRw1KYkx60oJX7kJ9v3D3iktdb9+TdTddKPzySdnyNUB5o8HAY5MyaKgKTvcJGomOjbdZ3TZIxx7F!4KSdJNCka0yVwreg3bgTmnRMFZoAv5UtioaI5j1ciaYu/Zc2uD8QlUXkkzNiUO6/oyCQFCWlonmn!MMMKTO9qVBrLCbw/Hw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: usenetserver.com comp.databases.oracle.tools:180449 X-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 08:41:00 EST (text.usenetserver.com) wrote in message news:1165930187.037903.244430@j44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > We are trying to develop a front end for Oracle Text. Is there a way > to change or remove certain query operators within Oracle or does this > have to be done via a script? For example, the user may search for > "X-Y". We want them to be searching for "X-Y" and not "X" with "Y" > ranked lower. Is there something that allows us to alias the "-" to > "\-". Thanks. > I don't think so. You'll just have to test for it and do a replace. And BTW, letting the "X-Y" go through as a query can have very nasty consequences.