Re: Searching for decimal numbers

NN didn't work :(

I tried NN30 AND NN80 as well as NN30.80

Thanks for the suggestions.
--AC

"Gang_Warily" <GangWarily@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi

I presume you've emptied & rebuilt the catalog ?

Is it possible that the word-breaker is breaking the numbers at the
decimal
point ?
Breaking dates at '/' or '-' could be helpful to find 2006 in 20-11-2006.

There is a utility called LRtest that might help
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/890613

I don't know what all that means, but it seems that using an 'NN' prefix
might help find numbers ?

ie 'NN10' seems to find instances of '10'
so 'nn123 NEAR nn456' might find 123.456

Of course, it may also find 456.123 ?


Also 'NN1' to 'NN9' seem to be hard-coded as noise words, even though they
aren't in the noise-word file.

I'm doing a lot of guesswork here - let us know what you find !
Any response from the experts or those that have time to experiment would
also be most welcome.

"AC" wrote:

Hello,

I have removed the numbers from my noise.enu file (using American English
locale). I can get results for whole numbers and alpha-numeric words. A
decimal number does not show up when I search for it. Some of the
decimal
numbers are currency so I tried with the dollar sign as well. I would
appreciate suggestions from someone that has solved this problem. I find
very little when searching for this.

I am using the Indexing Service Query Form with Standard and Advanced
query
modes. I am only putting in the numbers. No special instructions.

Will *not* find:
$30.20
847.8
(732.5)

Will find:
76750035
(H72.5)
5534.22C

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AC





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