Method 

Description 

get 

Get option settings currently in effect 

getStemmingRulesFile 

Stemming rules for stemming searches (default: "stemming.dat") 

getTextFlags 

TextFlags value with text-processing options 

getUnicodeFilterRanges 

Indicates Unicode ranges that are of interest when filtering. 

save 

Applies changes to option settings 

setAlphabetFile 

Name of dtSearch alphabet file to use when parsing text into words. 

setBinaryFiles 

BinaryFilesSettings value specifying the treatment of files that do not appear to be documents. 

setBinaryFilterTextChars 

Define characters considered to be text if Options.setBinaryFiles is set to dtsoFilterBinary 

setBooleanConnectors 

Use to replace the default connectors used in search requests. 

setFieldFlags 

FieldFlags value that controls indexing of metadata 

setFileTypeTableFile 

Name of the file containing a table of filename patterns for file formats that dtSearch cannot detect automatically, such as older versions of WordStar 

setFuzzyChar 

Character that enables fuzzy searching for a search term (default "%") 

setHomeDir 

Directory where the dtSearch Engine and support files are located. 

setHyphens 

HyphenSettings value controlling the treatment of hyphens in text. 

setIndexNumbers 

If false, any word that begins with a digit will not be indexed. 

setLzwEnableCode 

Obsolete 

setMacroChar 

Character that indicates that a search term is a macro (default "@") 

setMatchDigitChar 

Wildcard character that matches a single digit (default: none) 

setMaxStoredFieldSize 

Maximum size of a single stored field. Store fields are field data collected during indexing that is returned in search results. 

setMaxWordLength 

Words longer than the maxWordLength will be truncated when indexing. The default maxWordLength is 32. The maximum value is 128. 

setMaxWordsToRetrieve 

Maximum number of words that can be matched in a search. This can be any value from 16 to 256k. The default is 64k. If a search matches more unique words than the maxWordsToRetrieve limit, the error code dtsErMaxWords will be returned. 

setNoiseWordFile 

List of noise words to skip during indexing (default: "noise.dat") 

setPhonicChar 

Character that enables phonic searching for a search term (default "#") 

setPrivateDir 

A directory that the dtSearch Engine can use to store temporary files. Most applications should not set PrivateDir. 

setSegmentationRulesFile 

File segmentation rules, used to split up long text files into logical subdocuments during indexing. 

setStemmingChar 

Character that enables stemming for a search term. 

setStemmingRulesFile 

Stemming rules for stemming searches (default: "stemming.dat") 

setSynonymChar 

Character that enables synonym searching for a search term. 

setTextFieldsFile 

Name of the file containing rules for extraction of field data from text files based on markers in the next 

setTextFlags 

TextFlags value specifying options for text processing during indexing. 

setTitleSize 

By default, the dtSearch Engine collects the first 80 characters of text from a file for the title associated with each document. Use this option to change the number of characters stored, up to a maximum of 512. 

setUnicodeFilterBlockSize 

Specifies how each input file is divided into blocks before being filtered. 

setUnicodeFilterFlags 

Flags controlling the behavior of the Unicode Filtering algorithm. 

setUnicodeFilterRanges 

Specifies the Unicode subranges that the filtering algorithm should look for. 

setUpdateFiles 

Set to true to force all configuration files to be re-read when save() is called. 

setUserThesaurusFile 

User-defined synonym sets. 

setWeightChar 

Character used to indicate term weighting (example: apple:5) 

setXmlIgnoreTags 

Comma-separated list of tags to ignore when indexing XML