Re: "Starts with" comparison in search

[Julian Reschke]

Cyrus Daboo wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Is it too late to consider adding a "startswith" comparison operation to
> the basicsearch grammar in the SEARCH extension? I think that is a key
> string match operation to have in addition to "contains".

Hi Cyrus,

are we talking about properties, or about content?

For properties, you can use DAV:like, with something like "prefix%" (see
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-search-17.html#rfc.section.5.15>).

BR, Julian

[John Barone]

+1   would be nice

-John

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Hi,
Is it too late to consider adding a "startswith" comparison operation to
the basicsearch grammar in the SEARCH extension? I think that is a key
string match operation to have in addition to "contains".

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Cyrus Daboo





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[John Barone]

Err... True.  Disregard my +1

-John

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Hi Julian,

--On August 11, 2008 5:00:33 PM +0200 Julian Reschke
<julian.reschke@...> wrote:

> are we talking about properties, or about content?
>
> For properties, you can use DAV:like, with something like "prefix%"
> (see
> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-reschke-webdav-search-17.html#
> rfc
> .section.5.15>).

Ah yes. That is probably sufficient for the vast majority of use cases I
can think of.

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