c/c++ text searching engine library

[Costa]

I am looking for a c/c++ text search engine library that supports:

- free text searching - not only beginning of words but substrings as
well
- wildcard searching - I want strings such as *test* to be supported
- regular expressions

I know about clucene, but, unless I am mistaken, lucene doesn't
support, for instance, having the * at the beginning of the searched
text, and it doesn't seem to support searching substrings.

Is there anything else out there? I came across a library developed at
some university, the library had a deity name but I can't recall it.

Thanks

[Costa]

Re: c/c++ text searching engine library

I just want to add that I used google to search for a library but I
could not find anything 100% satisfactory.

[Laurent D.A.M. MENTEN]

Re: c/c++ text searching engine library

Costa a écrit :

I just want to add that I used google to search for a library but I
could not find anything 100% satisfactory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_regular_expression_engines

[Costa]

Re: c/c++ text searching engine library

I am actually looking for an embeddable c/c++ text search engine such
as clucene not for a regular expression library. If the engine
doesn't support regular expressions that's fine but I want it to
support wildcard searches and substrings.

[James Kanze]

Re: c/c++ text searching engine library

Costa wrote:

I am looking for a c/c++ text search engine library that supports:

- free text searching - not only beginning of words but substrings as
well
- wildcard searching - I want strings such as *test* to be supported
- regular expressions

I know about clucene, but, unless I am mistaken, lucene doesn't
support, for instance, having the * at the beginning of the searched
text, and it doesn't seem to support searching substrings.

Is there anything else out there? I came across a library
developed at some university, the library had a deity name but
I can't recall it.

Boost has a regex component that looks pretty good. For
wildcard matching, of course, the conventions are somewhat
system dependent. In my own code, I map the wildcard pattern to
a regular expression, and use that.

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