From: Frederick Cheung <frederick.cheung@...>
Date: 2007-12-29T23:20:24+09:00
Subject: Re: String highlighting problem (newbie)


On 29 Dec 2007, at 13:47, Mark Toth wrote:

> I have two questions:
>
> 1.  I have a string
> @string = "This is a long string".
>
> How can I do to make two words "bold" or "italic" in this string, for
> example "is" and "long" shoudl be <b>?
>

I would probably use gsub. But at the end of the day it depends on how  
the words to be bolded are determined.
>
> 2.  I am searching in the mysql database with this code:
>
> @results = Product.find(:all, :conditions => [ "name LIKE ?",
> "%"+@searchstring+"%"])
>
> What if I want to search for many words in different order? I mean  
> if I
> should searched for example: "string is a long this" in the string
> above?

You need a full text search engine, for example the one in mysql,  
ferret, sphinx etc...

Fred
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
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