Metamorph parameters

These settings affect the way that text searches are performed. They are equivalent to changing the corresponding parameter in the profile, or by calling the Metamorph API function to set them (if there is an equivalent). They are:

minwordlen

The smallest a word can get due to suffix and prefix removal. Removal of trailing vowel or double consonant can make it a letter shorter than this. Default 255.

keepnoise

Whether noise words should be stripped from the query and index. Default off.

suffixproc

Whether suffixes should be stripped from the words to find a match. Default on.

prefixproc

Whether prefixes should be stripped from the words to find a match. Turning this on is not suggested when using a Metamorph index. Default off.

rebuild

Make sure that the word found can be built from the root and appropriate suffixes and prefixes. This increases the accuracy of the search. Default on.

useequiv

Perform thesaurus lookup. If this is on then the word and all equivalences will be searched for. If it is off then only the query word is searched for. Default off. Aka keepeqvs in version 5.01.1171414736 20070213 and later.

inc_sdexp

Include the start delimiter as part of the hit. This is not generally useful in Texis unless hit offset information is being retrieved. Default off.

inc_edexp

Include the end delimiter as part of the hit. This is not generally useful in Texis unless hit offset information is being retrieved. Default on.

sdexp

Start delimiter to use: a regular expression to match the start of a hit. The default is no delimiter.

edexp

End delimiter to use: a regular expression to match the start of a hit. The default is no delimiter.

hyphenphrase

Controls whether a hyphen between words searches for the phrase of the two words next to each other, or searches for the hyphen literally. The default value of 1 will search for the two words as a phrase. Setting it to 0 will search for a single term including the hyphen. If you anticipate setting hyphenphrase to 0 then you should modify the index expression to include hyphens.

wordc

Defines which characters consitute a word. When a match is found the hit is expanded to include all surrounding word characters. The value is specified as a REX character set. The default setting is [\alpha\'] which corresponds to all letters and apostrophe. If you wanted to exclude apostrophe and include digits you could say: set wordc='[\alnum]' Added in version 3.00.942260000.

langc

Defines which characters consitute a language query. This will allow suffix processing, as well as forcing the use of wordc to qualify the hit. Normally langc should be set the same as wordc with the addition of the phrase characters space and hyphen. The default is [\alpha\' \-] Added in version 3.00.942260000.

withinmode

Whether the ``within-N'' operator (eg. w/5) denotes within N characters (the default) or within N words. The settings are char for character and word for words. Added in version 4.04.1077930936 20040227.

phrasewordproc

Which words of a phrase to do suffix/wildcard processing on. The possible values are mono to treat the phrase as a monolithic word (ie. only last word processed, but entire phrase counts towards minwordlen); none for no suffix/wildcard processing on phrases; or last to process just the last word. Note that a phrase is multi-word, ie. a single word in double-quotes is not considered a phrase, and thus phrasewordproc does not apply. Added in version 4.03.1082000000 20040414. Mode none supported in version 5.01.1127760000 20050926.

mdparmodifyterms

If nonzero, allows the Metamorph query parset to modify search terms by compression whitespace and quoting/unquoting. This is for back-compatibility with earlier versions; enabling it will break the information from bit 4 of mminfo() (query offset/lengths of sets). Added in version 5.01.1220640000 20080905.