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Subject: Re: Valentina 2.0. -- What is your 3 DREAM features?
Author: Ruslan Zasukhin
Posted: 2004/01/31 16:47:00
 
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on 1/31/04 10:21 PM, Tim Davis at timdavis .at. amug D.OT org wrote:

>
>>> some kind of lexicographic search
>>> to be able to look for "e" and find "è é ë" etc.
>>>
>>> some tunable soundsalike search
>>> to be able to look for "jon" and find "john, joan, jan" etc.
>>
>> Not sure. May be ICU library can do this.
>
> I also would like to be able to select lexicographic and phonetic
> algorithms (ie. Soundex) for searches AND sorts.
>
> Additionally I would like to be able to define custom sorts of a unique
> string pattern. For example, I recently was dealing with a string which
> had patterned combination of strings and numbers. My result was to
> break it up into three baseobject methods, and then Order By each of
> those methods. It would be nice to be able to define a custom default
> sort for strings/varchar to streamline use of that field.

You mean callback for

int Compare( v1, v2 )

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Ruslan Zasukhin [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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