Brandon Vargo <brandon.va...@gmail.com> writes: > As an example of how it works, suppose I am making a news website and > have a bunch of news posts, each of which has an author, category, and
Thank you brandon for such a nice through answer... Yeah, looks like I'm barking up the wrong tree. I know about htdig.. Not much though. Far as remember it didn't have much in the way of search interface... something like google. Where as webglimpse has a rich set of search terms, including some regular expressions and regular expression like operators... all the same tools as glimpse (and agrep). So many in fact it can be a bit daunting to try to become proficient with. Maybe you can enlighten me about htdig... its been yrs since I tried htdig. Even webglimpse fails though when it comes to trying to search for snippets of code like perl or C etc. No body want the sloth and cpu overhead of serious regular expression searching and that maybe the only (good) way to search for things like /,{,$,(,[,!,@ etc etc like one would need to find types of code snippets. Also I guess it would be pretty hard to build an index with that in mind. I keep thinking some good developer will come out with a tool aimed at websites like might be found on a home lan (in scope)... where regular expression searching wouldn't be so far out. Or maybe there just is no herd of people who are competent in regular expression searching, and hence no audience for such a tool