Is there a way to search comments?

>search_except returns text that is formatted for "snippets" when all I want is the text around the keywords
If you strip tags from the text in the snippet and explode it using  ...  and also strip tags from the node body and individual comments then you should find I match quite easily I would think?

gpk
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www.alexoria.co.uk

Well, I'm a lot further down the road. I'm actually listing comments on the search results. But, my links aren't working. I wish to link directly to the comment:

    'link' => url('node/'. $item->sid . '/' . $comments->cid . '#comment-' . $comments->cid),

I want it to return this:

    http://www.mysite.com/node/87/21%2523comment-21

But, instead, it returns this:

    http://www.mysite.com/node/87/21%2523comment-21

Which, of course, won't doesn't work.

Any suggestions?

Here's the code I'm rolling with so far:

      // Extract positive keywords and phrases into $show_keys
	  // Determine number of search phrases in $show_terms
	  $search_terms = 0;
      preg_match_all('/ ("([^"]+)"|(?!OR)([^" ]+))/', ' '. $keys, $matches);
      $show_keys = array_merge($matches[2], $matches[3]);
      foreach ($show_keys as $key=>$value) {
        if (!empty($value)) $search_terms++;
	  }

and

          $results[] = array(
            'link' => url('node/'. $item->sid),
            'type' => check_plain(node_get_types('name', $node)),
            'title' => $node->title,
            'event' => $event_link,
            'user' => theme('username', $node),
            'date' => $node->changed,
            'node' => $node,
            'extra' => $extra,
            'score' => $item->score / $total,
            'group' => l($group_node->title, 'node/'. $group_node->nid),
            'snippet' => search_excerpt($keys, $node->body),
          );

		  // In case I ever need to use the snippet text
          //   $snippet=strip_tags(search_excerpt($keys, $node->body));
          //   $content = explode("...", $snippet);

          // Get comments for this node
		  $result = db_query('SELECT * FROM {comments} WHERE nid = %d AND status = %d', $node->nid, COMMENT_PUBLISHED);
          while ($comments = db_fetch_object($result)) {

            $found = 0;

			// Go through keywords to see if they match this comment
		    foreach ($show_keys as $key=>$search) {
              // Change everything to lower case just to be sure
			  $subject = strtolower(strip_tags($comments->subject));
			  $comment = strtolower(strip_tags($comments->comment));
			  $search = strtolower($search);

		      if (!empty($search)) {
		        // Look for match in subject or comment
		        if (strpos($subject, $search) !== FALSE || strpos($comment, $search) !== FALSE) {
				  $found++;
			    }
			  }
              // If all the keywords are found in this comment, then get the cid
              if ($found == $search_terms && $search_terms > 0) {
                $results[] = array(
//                  'link' => url('node/'. $item->sid . '/' . $comments->cid . '#comment-' . $comments->cid),
                  'link' => url('node/'. $item->sid . '/' . $comments->cid),
                  'type' => check_plain(node_get_types('name', $node)),
                  'title' => $comments->subject,
                  'event' => $event_link,
                  'user' => theme('username', $node),
                  'date' => $node->changed,
                  'node' => $node,
                  'extra' => $extra,
                  'score' => $item->score / $total,
                  'group' => l($group_node->title, 'node/'. $group_node->nid),
                  'snippet' => search_excerpt($keys, $node->body),
                );

	          }
		    }
          }

Here's a results snippet:

... options. There is also a button on your options page <b>that will</b> email your current password to you. Invalid Credentials (49) ... back online [12:40:41 PM] Ron Parker says: If I can <b>solve the problem</b>, do I get the rest of Labor day off? [12:41:19 PM] Mark A ...

The search was: "that will" and "solve the problem"

Now, the snippet you above is derived from two different comments. Because all comments are considered part of the node, the two phrases cause a hit. However, because my comment search is an "AND" search, I don't get any comment hits because I'm looking for both phrases in one comment.

If I make the comments search an OR search, that will make it extremely difficult to do fine tuned searches. So, what to do?

Now I see why this hasn't been resolved.