In order to fix the excerpt problem, that is where search can't find an excerpt matching the search (due to the search being the stemmed value), can I suggest that you provide a function that returns just the root. So for likely, like, liking all of which return a search key of like the common root function would return lik, or lik.*? which matches all the possible keys. That would enable search excerpt to work will a simple patch to call this function.

Looking at the code I think this could just be a copy of stem functions and then change all the replaces to replace with ''. Would that work?

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jhodgdon’s picture

jhodgdon
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You can use the Stem() function in Porter Stemmer to return the root of a word. That is exactly what it does. For the word "liking", "like" is the grammatical root.

Anyway, I have a fix for the underlying problem with search excerpts now, see #493270: search_excerpt() doesn't work well with stemming

greggles’s picture

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Category: feature » support
Status: Active » Fixed

Since this is already provided, I guess this can be considered a support request and considered fixed.

Thanks @jhodgdon.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.