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Search-Indexer-Incremental-MD5-0.02.6
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NAME

Search::Indexer::Incremental::MD5::Searcher - Search your index your files

SYNOPSIS

  my $search_string = 'find_me' ;
  my $searcher = 
	eval 
	{
	Search::Indexer::Incremental::MD5::Searcher->new
		(
		USE_POSITIONS => 1, 
		INDEX_DIRECTORY => 'text_index', 
		get_perl_word_regex_and_stop_words(),
		)
	} or croak "No full text index found! $@\n" ;
  
  my $results = $searcher->search($search_string) ;
  
  # sort in decreasing score order
  my @indexes = map { $_->[0] }
		    reverse
		        sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] }
			    map { [$_, $results->[$_]{SCORE}] }
			        0 .. $#$results ;
  
  for (@indexes)
	{
	print "$results->[$_]{PATH} [$results->[$_]{SCORE}].\n" ;
	}
	
  $searcher = undef ;

DESCRIPTION

This module implements an incremential text indexer and searcher based on Search::Indexer.

DOCUMENTATION

Given a list of files, this module will allow you to create an indexed text database that you can later query for matches. You can also use the siim command line application installed with this module.

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

new( %named_arguments)

Create a Search::Indexer::Incremental::MD5::Searcher object.

my $indexer = new Search::Indexer::Incremental::MD5::Searcher(%named_arguments) ;

Arguments - %named_arguments

-

Returns - A Search::Indexer::Incremental::MD5::Searcher object

Exceptions -

  • Incomplete argument list

  • Error creating index directory

  • Error opening index metadata database

  • Error creating a Search::Indexer object

search(%named_arguments)

search for $search_string in the index database

Arguments %named_arguments

SEARCH_STRING - Query string see Search::Indexer

Returns - Array reference - each entry contains

  • SCORE - the score obtained by the file when applying the query

  • PATH - the path to the file

  • MD5 - the file MD5 when the indexing was done

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

None so far.

AUTHOR

Nadim ibn hamouda el Khemir
CPAN ID: NKH
mailto: nadim@cpan.org

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Search::Indexer::Incremental::MD5

You can also look for information at:

SEE ALSO