I found it.  In the Swish-E PHP class on the Scripts page
(http://swish-e.org/Scripts/), this line...

$this->words = escapeshellcmd($this->words);

..causes the parantheses to be escaped, meaning they're prepended with
backslashes.  So the command is being submitted as:

foo section=\(not bar\)

Commenting that line out fixes the problem, but I have no idea what else
will break because of it.

Deane



-----Original Message-----
From: swish-e@sunsite.berkeley.edu [mailto:swish-e@sunsite.berkeley.edu]
On Behalf Of Deane Barker
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 10:00 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [SWISH-E] Boolean Searches Against MetaNames


I have ExtractPathData set to extract the first folder to a metaname
called "section".  It works well.  To find things in a certain section,
I do this:
 
foo section=bar
 
But what if I want to find something NOT in that section (that is to
say, everywhere else BUT that section)?
 
foo section=(not bar)
 
Should this work?  It doesn't, but I can't figure out if it's Swish-E or
the way I coded the PHP.  If you can tell me this SHOULD work, then I
know that my PHP is hosed.
 
I don't want to waste anyone's time, so you don't need to do a lot of
debugging.  Just tell me if this should work or not and you'll have
helped me quite a bit.
 
Thanks.
 
Deane



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