On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Hi, > > I'm taking up the challenge in writing a Free Pascal & fpGUI newsgroup > reader. The main reason is really to archive the news content for > off-line processing, so that I can extend the WebNews (cgi > application) used by tiOPF and fpGUI projects to support searching > message content (headers and body) of newsgroups. I also want to use > the search feature for my custom written Wiki cgi application. There > seems to be many people hosting private newsgroups, but don't have any > message body search feature. The only alternative is to using > something like Mozilla Thunderbird and ask to download newsgroup > content for offline reading - though Thunderbird has some serious > Search bugs which makes it pretty useless for the task! > > Anyway, for searching I was thinking of using regular expressions - > though I must admit, I know nothing of the subject (yet). > As a preliminary tally of what components I can use, I have the > following question: > > How does the 'regexp' unit included in FCL compare to components like > TRegExpr [http://www.regexpstudio.com/TRegExpr/TRegExpr.html] and I > heard some people mention PCRE? Though I have no clue what the > latter is. :-) > > PS: > If I am barking up the wrong tree and regular expressions are not the > way to go, please enlighten me of an alternative route. eg; I would > love to sort the messages in a Firebird database, but does anybody > know if Firebird RDBMS supports of has some plugin for full text > search? I don't like MySQL by the way! Sphinx is a database full text search engine which has now also support for Firebird. It has a library API so it should be easy to interface to it from FPC. It's on my list for some of our apps, but I didn't get around to it yet. Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
