Ray, et al --

...and then Ray Hunter said...
% 
% On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 06:47, David T-G wrote:
% > Very, very simple stuff.  The list of directories and files is held in an
%...

% That is simple enough, however, I dont see much flexibility in it with

Just between you and me, I tend to agree, but at this point we don't need
flexibility.


% searching. So you are doing searching on directories and file names

Not quite; the serialized array *does* contain the directory list.
Imagine

  $tree =
  (
    [0] =>
    (
      [0] => ./d1 ,
      [1] => ./d2 ,
      [2] => ./d2/s1 ,
      [3] => ./d2/s1/s2 ,
    ) ,
    [1] =>
    (
      [0] => ./d1/f1 ,
      [0] => ./d1/f2 ,
      [1] => ./d2/f3 ,
      [1] => ./d2/f4 ,
      [1] => ./d2/f5 ,
      [2] => ./d2/s1/f6 ,
      [3] => ./d2/s1/s2/f7 ,
      [3] => ./d2/s1/s2/f8 ,
    )
  )

or so.  Now my input is 'd1' or 'f2' or even 'd1 f2' or such.


% based on what is in the serialized array?  Will you need to search the
% document in the near future?

Presumably; this is a way to look through a directory tree and return
pointers to those that match.  Typically we'll have an array of 20 or 30
directories; often we'll have maybe 100; on rare occasion we might have
250 or more.


% 
% Lucene has that logic in it. However, not sure if lucene is the way to
% go. It will work for what you are doing. However, it might be an

OK; I'll at least read up on it.  Thanks!


% overkill depending on how many files you are searching on. You might be
% able to write a regexep using preg_match that will return what you are
% looking for.

Probably, but I'm more worried about handling some wacky input like

  (this or that) and the and (ot or her)

or something wonky.  So I could always kick back a "no way, buddy!" error
but I don't want to throw up all over everything getting confused by it.


% 
% --
% Ray


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