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Relevance percentage between two string

Hi, How to get relevance percentage between two string in C# ? Thanks. ...

Fastest way to find an item in a list?

I have an unsorted list of strings. I can place these items in an array, List, SortedList, whatever. I need to find the fastest way of looking up a string in this list. Am I better off dumping the list into an array, sorting it, then implementing binary search? Or does the framework provide a way to do this? Thanks P.S. Using VS200...

How to add spelling suggestions to PHP/SQL search script

Hey Guys, Creating a search function on my site using php/sql, simple enough - just using a SELECT ALL query on the database using the LIKE clause and echoing the result on the page. My question is, how can I add spelling suggestions in case the user mistyped their search query. Mysql doesn't return anything unless the search term match...

php / sql search

Hi, I want to find articles when searched on following keyword: "maruti sx4 maintenance costs against honda city" I want a query or php regular expression which can find a article which having below text "SX4 maintenance cost is lesser because of Maruti. Honda City maintenance is also okay." i.e i want a function/code which can fi...

Search XML files with xalan in Java

Hello, I need to write a java application that does a keyword search within the tags and the actual data from many xml files. From my research online I get the feeling i have to use xalan, but I can't figure out how to use it or what it does. Could somebody point me in the right direction? Thanks ...

search site and web in joomla

We have created a web using Joomla CMS. In this site we want to implement a feature by which a use can search for text in our website as well as on the whole web using some search engine like google or yahoo. Is there any extension available which will allow one to search web site it is hosted on as well the whole web in a Joomla based ...

How to search for record in mysql using php?

Thanks for all your help, I now have add, update, and delete functions on my database manipulation program. But I'm having difficulty on searching for records in mysql database. Please help me in correcting my codes, and if you know a site that I can use as my reference please do tell. Thanks, here is my search code: <?php ...

Customising Google Custom Search's iFrame to have a transparent background?

Hello. I've looked through all the relative GCS questions and answers on this site and have looked around the net, but no avail. I am using Google Custom Search with the iFrame option and the standard theme on a site where the background of the site has a textured, multicolour background. The Google results come in a standard #FFFFFF ba...

How to format search autocompletion part lists?

I'm currently working on an AppEngine project, and I'd like to implement autocompletion of search terms. The items that can be searched for are reasonably unambiguous and short, so I was thinking of implementing it by giving each item a list of incomplete typings. So foobar would get a list like [f, fo, foo, foob, fooba, foobar]. The use...

python search replace using wildcards

hi somewhat confused.. but trying to do a search/repace using wildcards if i have something like: <blah.... ssf ff> <bl.... ssf dfggg ff> <b.... ssf ghhjj fhf> and i want to replace all of the above strings with say, <hh >t any thoughts/comments on how this can be accomplished? thanks update (thanks for the co...

Search for a file using Javascript

Hi, I am creating a Search functionality program, which searches a file mentioned by the user on a folder present in a Network folder through File Scripting Object. The code works fine but the problem is that, when it searches the file on the Network folder the entire HTML page gets hanged and nothing is displayed till the code has fin...

Hibernate inheritance search

Hello guys! I will try to summarize my question. I have a base class "Base" with three properties. Four classes inherit from it - "A", "B", "C" and "D". They add their own additional properties. I have mapped this with InheritanceType.JOINED. Now I want to search for "Base" entities, which means that I search on the common properties ...

Search for text in files in the path using ruby

I need to search all the *.c source files in the path to find a reference to a *.h header to find unused C headers. I wrote a ruby script but it feel very clumsy. I create an array with all C files and an array with all the H files. I iterate over the header file array. For each header I open each C file and look for a reference to the ...

How to search and replace a tag value in xml file using delphi?

How to search and replace a tag value in XML file using Delphi? I know what the XML tag is, but the value is random and simply needs to be reset to a default value, so in reality I cannot/should not search for the value but only the tag. I also know the location of the file/files. I'm new to Delphi, can someone provide me a simply exam...

sequential strpos() faster than a function with one preg_match?

i need to test if any of the strings 'hello', 'i am', 'dumb' exist in the longer string called $ohreally, if even one of them exists my test is over, and i have the knowledge that neither of the others will occur if one of them has. Under these conditions I am asking for your help on the most efficient way to write this search, strpos(...

Do I need to normalize this MySQL db?

I have a classifieds website which uses SOLR to search for whatever ads the user wants to search for... SOLR then returns the ID:s of all the matches found. I then use the ID:s to fetch and display the ads from a MySQL table. currently I have one huge table containing everything in MySQL. Sometimes some of the fields are empty because f...

C# - How do you search a large text file for a string without going line by line?

I have a large text file that I need to search for a specific string. Is there a fast way to do this without reading line by line? This method is extremely slow because of the size of the files (100mb+) ...

Questions about SOLR documents and some more

Website: Classifieds website (users may put ads, search ads etc) I plan to use SOLR for searching and then return results as ID nr:s only, and then use those ID nr:s and query mysql, and then lastly display the results with those ID:s. Currently I have around 30 tables in MySQL, one for each category. 1- Do you think I should do it di...

Website Filter using PHP and MySQL Query

Ok, so on my site we have a filter section where a user can select to filter through games by either the game's genre or the model that the game will play on. I'm trying to write a query that will query the database and filter it by genre if genre is the only set item, filter it by model if model is the only set item, or filter both if ...

Efficient algorithm for searching 3D coordinate in an array

Hi All, I have a large array (>10^5 entries) of 3D coordinates r=(x, y, z), where x, y and z are floats. Which is the most efficient way to search a given coordinate r' in the array and give the array index. Note that the r' may not given with the same accuracy as r; say, if the array has stored coordinate (1.5, 0.5, 0.0) and r' is give...