Hi,

petersprc@gmail.com wrote:
> [lots of useful stuff about ft index options]

Ok, I am now inclined to go for boolean matching (which apparently
counts the number of different matches) and normalize by length
afterwards. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to count the number of
times a term was matched in the document.

Anyway, how can I get the number of words in a string? I couldn't find
anything like that in the string functions section of the manual.

> If you need more control, you might try using the lucene search engine.

It's not really a natural language document retrieval application, I'm
just abusing it for my purpose. And I'd really like to be able to work
directly on our databases.

Thanks for your help.

Ciao,
Jens