At 03:01 PM 02/05/00 -0800, Edwin Whitelaw wrote:
>After hacking this into production on our corporate web site,
>http://www.gdats.com, the "word too common" error message is correctly
>displayed when searching for the listed stop words, EXCEPT for the word
>"and"!
>
>The swish.h file clearly shows "and" as a stop word.
>
>Any thoughts how this one is slipping through?

"And" is a boolean term and part of the search language.

see search.c
int isbooleanrule(word)
char *word;
{
	if (!strcmp(word, "and") || !strcmp(word, "or"))
		return 1;
	else
		return 0;
}




Bill Moseley
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