Wildcards without *

[soatley]

Is there a way to specify Zoom to search for wildcards even if someone doesn't put the * after the search term?

[Ray]

There is an option under the "Languages" tab in the Configuration window to perform "Substring match for all searches". If you enable this, a search for "car" would be the same as searching for "*car*".

This option was designed for asian languages which do not have spaces separating words (eg. chinese, japanese)

[soatley]

Thanks Raymond!

I thought that there was an option, but I couldn't remember where it was!

Shawn

[soatley]

Hi Raymond,

I just tested it and it works as you mentioned. In fact, a little too good! :) Is there a way I can set it so that it searches for wildcards after the typed word and not before?

so....

system*
NOT *system*

Thanks,
Shawn

[Ray]

There's no built-in feature to force all searches to be like "car*". You would have to modify the script (if you're using the PHP, ASP or Javascript versions) if you wish to do this. This would require some familiarity with the scripting language in question (we can not provide support for modified scripts). Alternatively, you can use a bit of Javascript on the search page to append "*"s to the end of each word in the search query.

[soatley]

Hi Ray,

That's what I ended up doing.... Using a little Java, I appended a * to any spaces and one to the end and it works like a charm.

Thanks,
Shawn