From: Rolando Abarca <funkaster@...>
Date: 2007-12-15T03:19:22+09:00
Subject: Re: simple way to turn "foo and bar" to "+foo +bar"

On Dec 14, 2007, at 2:48 PM, Max Williams wrote:

> I want to add a slightly hacky feature into my boolean mysql search
> which lets users write 'foo and bar', which is then translated into
> '+foo +bar' (ie both 'foo' and 'bar' must be present) before being
> passed to the search.  Similarly, "foo and bar and snafu" should be
> translated into "+foo +bar +snafu".
>
> I'm sure there must be a simple way to do this but i'm new to ruby and
> have got bogged down in loads of nested ifs and exceptions already.
>
> Can anyone help with an elegant solution?

"foo and bar and baz".split(/\s+and\s+/i).map{|s| "+#{s}"}.join(' ')

> thanks
> max

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