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partial word search with FULLTEXT
Posted by: Cread Cdd
Date: August 31, 2006 01:10PM

MySQL FULLTEXT searches support wildcard suffixes such as:

mysql> SELECT * FROM articles WHERE MATCH (title,body)
-> AGAINST ('apple*' IN BOOLEAN MODE);

which returns all title/body lines that contain the prefix 'apple',
such as

appleby
appleseed

but not

bigapple
redapple

This is described online at:

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/fulltext-boolean.html

Question: can FULLTEXT be configured to support wildcard
prefixes _and_ suffixes simultaneously? IE, something like:

mysql> SELECT * FROM articles WHERE MATCH (title,body)
-> AGAINST ('*apple*' IN BOOLEAN MODE);

so that we would get back all of the above results:

appleby
appleseed
bigapple
redapple

Thanks,
creadcdd

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