[bt-devel] RegExp Bug??

Nikolay Igotti bt-devel@crosswire.org
Thu, 29 Aug 2002 20:01:09 -0700 (PDT)


On Thu, 29 Aug 2002, Fred Saalbach wrote:

> I was going to try to answer this so I made up a RegExp search string 
> [God]|[created]  and ran this search on KJV
 This one should return every verse containings chars 'g' 'o' 'd' 'c' and 
so on - entire Bible I think :).


> It returned every verse in the bible
> God created  did not return anything in RegExp, while  God created  in
> Multiple Word Search returned correctly.
> 
> Is RegExp in the backend?
 Sure RegExp search is implemented by Sword, and not by BT.


 Nikolay.



> Nikolay Igotti wrote:
> > 
> >  This one is a pretty generic question for RegExp gurus.
> > Is there any way given several words in Google like way, i.e.
> > +rice +potato -garden -cook
> > create regular expression that matches every phrase containing
> > all those with + mark and doesn't contain any of those with - mark.
> >  I tried to create one, but failed. Maybe someone has more luck.
> > 
> >   Thanks,
> >     Nikolay.
> 
>