Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 21:16:43 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Tue, 06 Aug 1996 05:08:34 GMT Content-length: 2566 Search

Search (using Glimpse)

You can search the contents of all of my personal Web pages rooted at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~krisna/ using Agrep-style regular expressions.

You can provide search predicates using the entry form provided below. The result of the search is a single page containing pointers to all pages which match the search predicates provided. Be sure to escape any metacharacters in your search predicates as appropriate.



Search Form

Search predicate:

: Case-insensitive matches.
: Show matching lines.



Miscellaneous Information

This section is for those who are interested in the details of the search procedure.

The agrep-style searching is done an a pre-built index (which is updated periodically). Indices are built and searched using the Glimpse toolkit. By default, matches are case-sensitive and the lines that match the search predicate are not shown in the output.

Enabling the output of matching lines produces a cluttered display, but may sometimes help in narrowing down the search if too many pages match the predicate. An attempt is made to highlight the predicate in the matched lines but this is not guaranteed to be always successful (for reasons too mundane to go into).

Problems?

Remember to escape meta-characters. This is very important. The search script feeds your predicate to glimpse as is. Any errors from glimpse are quietly ignored.

The search-indices are currently built on deHTMLized pages. This means that a search predicate will not match HTML keywords unless the actual contents of the page would also produce such a match. However, if you enable match output, HTML tags will also be displayed (this is done in order to make the searching as fast as possible).

Comments are welcome.



[ Krishna Kunchithapadam ]



Last modified Tue Mar 12 07:06:24 CST 1996 by KK.