From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-05-28T03:58:48+09:00
Subject: Re: How to build an index of phrases in a phrase/sentence?

On May 27, 2005, at 1:39 PM, Dan Fitzpatrick wrote:

> I am trying to build an indexing structure on some phrases. Most  
> phrases will have 2 - 5 parts (words). The resulting array will be  
> dumped into an index to find the matching phrases. I don't want to  
> do wildcard searching on the resulting array to find the phrase.
>
> I would like to turn "This is some text" into
>
> ["This",
> "This is",
> "This is some",
> "This is some text",
> "is",
> "is some",
> "is some text",
> "some",
> "some text",
> "text"]
>
> The order of the resulting array doesn't matter. When someone  
> searches for "is some" or "some text", I want it to find this  
> phrase. I don't want a search for "is text" to find this phrase  
> though.

Perhaps I'm not understanding, but how does the following fail to  
meet your needs?

"This is some text".match(/is some/i)

James Edward Gray II