Re: Keyword searching with internal truncation in WebPAC

["Margaret Peloquin" <peloquin at austincc dot edu>]

This happens in our catalog as well.  It appears that one must have at least 
two characters before the *, but may have only one character after.  I tried 
your m*n example and a couple of others using one character * one character 
and always got no results.  However, sm*e, got good results.

Aline Soules <asoules at csuhayward dot edu> said:

> Searching wom*n in the WebPAC will retrieve hits for woman and women, 
> while searching m*n does not retrieve any hits (man or men). We suspect 
> that there needs to be at least 2 character before the * , e.g., as in 
> sc*re, but we'd like to confirm that others are experiencing the same 
> results (the manual does not seem to address this, or else we missed 
> it).  If our assumption is correct, how do you search for the keywords 
> man or men?  Is using the keyword "man" OR "men" the only way?
> 
> Aline Soules, Associate University Librarian
> California State University, Hayward
> tel. 510-885-4596
> e-mail:  asoules at csuhayward dot edu
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