[Tutor] Re: Willing to look at code?

[Jonathan Hayward]

Jonathan Hayward wrote:

> I have a bug that I'm trying to track down and was wondering if 
> someone would look at it.
>
> I have a combination search engine/weblog that has working keyword 
> searches, and I'm trying to add searches for quotations. What I'm 
> trying to do is let the boolean parser know that there's one more 
> primitive besides word, 'and', 'or', and 'not': 'quotation', which is 
> calculated as follows:
>
> 1: Break the quotation into tokens.
> 2: Calculate a relevance score which is 0 if one or more token is 
> absent. (An optimization.)
> 3: If the relevance score is positive, check if the sequence of tokens 
> is found in the document.
>
> The matches are the ones which pass steps 2 and 3.
>
> The problem I'm having is that a quotation search matches everything.
>
> Any takers?
>
As per Danny Yoo's suggestion that I post the source, I've placed a 
tarball at http://haywardfamily.org/jonathan/searchlog1_0_1.tar.gz

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