Have you considered left-padding your numbers with zeros to make each
number a string of the same length?
e.g., The number 5 would be indexed/queried as "00005", which can be
correctly compared to 10 ("00010"), 2345 ("02345"), etc. in a lexical
comparison...
Jeff
On 7/7/05, Leos Literak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I know the answear, but just for curiosity:
>
> have you guys ever thought about non-lexical comparison
> support? For example I started to index number of replies
> in discussion, so I can find questions without answear,
> with one reply, two comments etc. But I cannot simply
> express that I want to find questions with more than five
> comments (there are ways using regexp, but I dont consider
> them as simple).
>
> Probably such feature belongs to RDBMS rather than to fulltext
> library .. I am just interested in you opinion. (I expect,
> that my users will raise the question, why they cannot use
> such condition so I ask in advance).
>
> Leos
>
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