By tkgafs on

I am running drupal 4.7 rc3 with the search module and porterstemmer module

I have node titled "Laing, Ali" but I cannot seach for the word Laing

when I do I get the following error message

You must include at least one positive keyword with 3 characters or more.

but if I search for Ali I find the node correctly

If you try the same search on this site you get the same result

so what is special about laing !!!

Tkgafs

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PakWaan commented

That's freaky - and if you change a character or two, the search works fine.

I'll bet Dries had an old enemy named Laing in college and that name is now banned by Drupal. Notice it said you had to enter a "positive" word!

;)

Actually, that word searches fine on my site, running 4.7RC3.

tkgafs’s picture

tkgafs commented

I think I have cracked the problem

if you have the porterstemmer module installed any two chars followed by ing will fail with the error above presumably the porterstemmer module is dropping the ing leaving only two characters hence the message about 3 characters or more

tkgafs

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chrisd commented

Sound like a feature request, maybe even a bug for the "porterstemmer module". I vote for bug.

Seems important, many 5 letter words end with ing.

Looks like the fix would be:

 to not to remove "ing", if lenght(search_term)  < 6

Please log this issue, so users of porterstemmer will know about it and some kind programmer will fix it.

Thanks,
Chris
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tkgafs’s picture

tkgafs commented

How do I report this there does not seem to be an issues section for the porterstemmer module

tkgafs

chrisd’s picture

chrisd commented

Looks like an omission.

Reported the missing entry for module Porter-Stemmer at:
http://drupal.org/node/59994

Cheers,
Chris
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cybertoto commented

I've the same problem with the french word "pied" witch means "foot"..

I've not understood how to solve the problem.. Can you help me please ?

Anthony