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Re: [grubstreet] Documentation for the search?

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From: Ivor Williams
Subject: Re: [grubstreet] Documentation for the search?
Date: 01:00 on 18 Dec 2002
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kate L Pugh" <kake@xxxxx.xx>
To: <grubstreet@xxxxxxx.xxxxx.xx>
Sent: 18 December 2002 00:41
Subject: Re: [grubstreet] Documentation for the search?


> On Tue 17 Dec 2002, Kate L Pugh <kake@xxxxx.xx> wrote:
> > Hello.  I read over some old issues of the mailing list but couldn't
> > find any documentation on how to create search strings that will work
> > with the new search.
>
> As just discovered with Ivor's help over IRC, my confusion over this
> has been because the search box doesn't actually call the new search,
> but the old one, which allows regexes in.  So I can solve my problem
> with a regex.  Sorted!

I can see one problem with this - when Earle changes the grubstreet main site to use my external search instead, and Kake's
wikiscraper script will try using the regexp syntax.

Any way of decoupling the 'form' side from the 'results' side in the WWW::Grubstreet modules? Both the original
grubstreet.pl?search=xxx and search.pl?search=yyy have a standard CGI interface. If you call it directly as a CGI you would be
independent of what the grubstreet page's search form is actually pointing at.

Ivor.


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