Character Map Commands

maplist

The maplist command will return a list of all the character maps loaded in the matching engine.

mapcreate –mapname <name> [-mapchars <map-file>] [-foldcase] [-folddiacritics]  [-punctuation <c>]  [-whitespace <c>]

The mapcreate command will create a character map in the matching engine.  Once created the character map can be used in tblload commands as the character map applied to a field.  Options are:

 

-mapname <name>

the unique identifying name for this character map.

-mapchars <map-file>

used to set explicit character mappings.  Map-file is the name of a file that consists of sets of 3 characters: <from><to><new-line> specifying that character from is mapped to character to before comparing strings.  The new-line character is used to visually separate the map character sets.  So the file consists of a set of lines consisting of exactly two characters.  (Except that either from or to may be the new-line character.)

-foldcase

if this is present all letters are mapped to a common letter case.

-folddiacritics

if present diacritic marks are stripped from letters.

-punctuation

if present all punctuation characters are mapped to the character c.

-whitespace

if present all whitespace characters are mapped to the character c.