Hi all,
I am confused by the MSDN help regarding the Contains clause for fulltext
search.
The Help states that the single-quote does not need to be escaped for
CONTAINS but must be escaped for FREETEXT.
Here is an example of a CONTAINS put together by my search program which
does not produce an error:
AND ( contains((summary),'("girl''s") and ("children''s" | "dog''s")')
OR contains((List_Name),'("girl''s") and ("children''s" | "dog''s")') )
order by list_Name
The fonts in my email are not correctly representing the clause. I have
replaced ' in the word girl's with 2 single quotes as in typical escaping
for strings...similar to a simple:
(Where list_name = 'girl''s'), because (Where list_name = 'girl's') of
course produces a syntax error.
The problem is that I expect only list_names that contain "girl's" to be
returned. However, with the CONTAINS clause using escape for single-quote
also returns any list_name that contains 'girl' as well.
When I don't double up the quotes, the CONTAINS clause returns an error "
syntax error near 's' ", not what is expected by the online Help.
Anybody have some help for me?
John Kotuby - 17 Dec 2007 01:12 GMT
Sorry everyone...I posted to the wrong group. Meant to post to SqlServer
group.
> Hi all,
> I am confused by the MSDN help regarding the Contains clause for fulltext
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>
> Anybody have some help for me?