Chris Hostetter wrote:
: So I don't see why using a SpanNear that respects order and a large
: IncrementGap won't solve your problem...... Although it would return "odd"
i think the use case he's worreid about is that he needs to be able to
find matches just on the "start" of a persons name, ie...
Email#1 To: Jim Bob; Sue Anne-Marie Brown; John Doe
Email#2 To: Tom Smith; Bob Jones; John Doe
...he needs to support existing semantics that let him say "find emails
where the start of a persons name is 'bob' and it returns Email#2, but not
email#1 .. hence his interest in SpanFirst -- he wants to match the
"first" few tokens of a "value" added to a field (which isn't waht
SpanFirst does)
Correct. That's one of the current search mechanisms. It's not a major issue
and I think I'll probably end up ducking it on the basis that the system
directory defaults to a surname/firstname name order, but of course there's no
guarantee that mail from other systems will have those names in that order, e.g.
#1 To: Bowesman Antony
#2 To: Antony Bowesman
makes this 'starts with' feature less useful.
Thanks again Hoss and Erick for the suggestions! This list is excellent and I
do wonder if you guys actually have day jobs that you are able to do as well as
give the amount of time you seem to on this list!
Antony
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