Word search

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1997


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texte = Is there a search comparison that *won't* match a search string to a substring on the database?What I mean is this: If I do a search on my database for Myst (like the game), it returns entries with the word Myst but it also returns entries with words like mystery. I'd like it to return *just* the Myst records.I currently have the search wa'd (Word-And), which I thought would do it for me. It probably wouldn't be that much of a problem, but webcat crashes my server if I do a search for a single letter, like X (which is the name of one of our products).Any advice?MichaelMichael Winston *By Phone!: (503)/652/8815 x341 Internet Coordinator *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Keyword search ( "Steve Chun" 2004)
  2. Re: Keyword search ( Gary Krockover 2004)
  3. Re: Keyword search ( "WebDna @ Inkblot Media" 2004)
  4. Re: Keyword search ( "Steve Chun" 2004)
  5. Re: Keyword search ( Gary Krockover 2004)
  6. Keyword search ( "Steve Chun" 2004)
  7. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Gary Krockover 2003)
  8. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Brian Fries 2003)
  9. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
  10. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
  11. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Rob Marquardt 2003)
  12. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Gary Krockover 2003)
  13. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
  14. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (andy mowrey 2003)
  15. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
  16. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
  17. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Rob Marquardt 2003)
  18. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Gary Krockover 2003)
  19. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (WebCat @ Inkblot Media 2003)
  20. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
  21. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (marc@kaiwi.com (Marc Kaiwi) 2003)
  22. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (WebCat @ Inkblot Media 2003)
  23. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (WebCat @ Inkblot Media 2003)
  24. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Kenneth Grome 2003)
  25. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Gary Krockover 2003)
  26. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Gary Krockover 2003)
  27. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Christer Olsson 2003)
  28. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Rajeev Kumar 2003)
  29. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Stuart Tremain 2003)
  30. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Rajeev Kumar 2003)
  31. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Tim Robinson 2003)
  32. Re: Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Kenneth Grome 2003)
  33. Highlighting words found in a keyword search (Gary Krockover 2003)
  34. Re: whole word search bringing irrelevant results.. (Christopher Feyrer 2000)
  35. Re: whole word search bringing irrelevant results.. (Howard Wolosky 2000)
  36. Re: whole word search bringing irrelevant results.. (Christopher Feyrer 2000)
  37. Re: whole word search bringing irrelevant results.. (Kenneth Grome 2000)
  38. whole word search bringing irrelevant results.. (Christopher Feyrer 2000)
  39. mutiple word search in one field (Mike Jones 1999)
  40. Re: Exact word search - continued (Dave MacLeay 1998)
  41. Exact word search - continued (Richard 1998)
  42. Re: exact word search (PCS Technical Support 1998)
  43. exact word search (Richard 1998)
  44. Re: Word search (Mike Heininger 1997)
  45. Re: Word search (Michael Winston 1997)
  46. Word search (Michael Winston 1997)
  47. Re: Word search (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  48. Re: Word search (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  49. Re: Word search (Kenneth Grome 1997)
Is there a search comparison that *won't* match a search string to a substring on the database?What I mean is this: If I do a search on my database for Myst (like the game), it returns entries with the word Myst but it also returns entries with words like mystery. I'd like it to return *just* the Myst records.I currently have the search wa'd (Word-And), which I thought would do it for me. It probably wouldn't be that much of a problem, but webcat crashes my server if I do a search for a single letter, like X (which is the name of one of our products).Any advice?MichaelMichael Winston *By Phone!: (503)/652/8815 x341 Internet Coordinator *By e-mail!: michaelw@dhorse.com Dark Horse Comics, Inc. *By web!: http://www.dhorse.com/ Michael Winston

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