[turba] Search algorithm

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Wed Oct 18 08:21:51 PDT 2006


Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:

> a client requested that the address search in IMP/DIMP work like in  
> other mail clients, i.e. that only contacts are returned that match  
> the typed characters at the beginning of the first name, last name,  
> or email address. Currently we do regular substring matching. Since  
> the searching happens in Turba, we would need to change it there.
> I personally find our current method more intuitive, but giving that  
> our application seems to be the only one implementing this search,  
> most people seem to think different. What's your opinion?

I sometimes rely on the fact that substrings work. I wouldn't miss it  
terribly, but I don't personally see it as a problem and I haven't  
gotten negative feedback about the way it currently works.

-chuck

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