Strip out non-alphanumeric characters before saving to index

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Does anyone know a simple way, with ferret or a_a_f, to strip out
everything that’s not a letter, number or space before saving to the
index? I know that i could do a custom method for every indexed field
that regexes them out but i thought that there might be a universal
option for it…

thanks
max

2

Hi!

That’s a typical job for an analyzer, I think Ferret’s StandardAnalyzer
which is used by default does exactly that. If not, try RegexpAnalyzer.

Cheers,
Jens

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 02:43:47PM +0200, Max W. wrote:

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great, i’ll check those out.

thanks!
max

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