Chapter 14. Working with Text 2: Searching
Chapter 13 discussed one common approach to working with text, defining a structure through a language called regular expressions and checking an input against this structure. One application of this approach is finding portions of text from a collection that meet a certain precisely defined criteria.
A very common related problem is finding documents from within a large collection that meet a less precisely defined requirement—for example, finding all Web pages that discuss JavaServer Pages or finding all e-mails from John Smith. This is called a text search or free text search to enforce the idea that the desired text is “free” to appear anywhere in the documents.
Text searches could be tackled by the ...
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