I prefer defaulting to unanchored, with anchoring characters personally.
If you want anchoring then say so, rather than having to say that you
don't want anchoring every time.

More convincingly, if the default is anchored, then it's 'complete field'
rather than somewhere in the field as the end is anchored as well.  Most
searches will not be complete field searche so the default should be
unanchored.

Rob

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Ray denenberg wrote:

> From: "Robert Sanderson" <[log in to unmask]>
> > Firt Word in Field in a word based index means that we need anchoring
> > characters.  This means we do not need word masking as it's already
> > masked because of the semantics of the index.
>
> You need anchoring characters if unanchored is the default. You need masking
> if anchored is the default.  I was asking if one is better than the other.
> --Ray
>

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