The properties of the Options class are listed below. For a complete list of Options class members, see the Options Members topic.
Public Instance Properties
 AlphabetFile | Name of dtSearch alphabet file to use when parsing text into words. |
| BinaryFiles | Controls the treatment of binary files. |
| BinaryFilterTextChars | Define characters considered to be text if Options.BinaryFiles is set ot dtsoFilterBinary |
| BooleanConnectors | Use to replace the default connectors used in search requests. |
| FieldFlags | Flags that control indexing of metadata. |
| FileTypeTableFile | Name of the file containing a table of filename patterns for file formats that dtSearch cannot detect automatically, such as older versions of WordStar |
| FuzzyChar | Character that enables fuzzy searching for a search term (default: "%") |
| HomeDir | Directory where the dtSearch Engine and support files are located. |
| Hyphens | Controls the treatment of hypyens |
| IndexNumbers | If false, any word that begins with a digit will not be indexed. |
| MacroChar | Character that indicates that a search term is a macro (default: "@") |
| MatchDigitChar | Wildcard character that matches a single digit (default: "="). |
| MaxFieldNesting | Maximum depth of nested fields (value must be between 1 and 32) |
| MaxStoredFieldSize | Maximum size of a single stored field. Stored fields are field data collected during indexing that is returned in search results. |
| MaxWordLength | Words longer than the maxWordLength will be truncated when indexing. The default maxWordLength is 32. The maximum value is 128. |
| MaxWordsToRetrieve | 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 (137) will be returned. |
| NoiseWordFile | List of noise words to skip during indexing (default: "noise.dat") |
| PhonicChar | Character that enables phonic searching for a search term (default "#") |
| PrivateDir | A directory that the dtSearch Engine can use to store temporary files. Most applications should not set PrivateDir. |
| SegmentationRulesFile | File segmentation rules, used to split up long text files into logical subdocuments during indexing. |
| StemmingChar | Character that enables stemming for a search term (default: "~"). |
| StemmingRulesFile | Stemming rules for stemming searches (default: "stemming.dat") |
| StoredFieldDelimiterChar | Delimiter between multiple instances of a stored field in a single file (default: " ") |
| SynonymChar | Character that enables synonym searching for a search term. |
| TextFieldsFile | Name of the file containing rules for extraction of field data from text files based on markers in the next |
| TextFlags | Flags that control text-processing options |
| TitleSize | 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. |
| UnicodeFilterBlockSize | Specifies how each input file is divided into blocks before being filtered. |
| UnicodeFilterFlags | Flags controlling the behavior of the Unicode Filtering algorithm. |
| UnicodeFilterMinTextSize | Minimum length of a run of text when applying the Unicode Filtering algorithm. |
| UnicodeFilterRanges | Indicates Unicode ranges that are of interest when filtering. |
| UnicodeFilterWordOverlapAmount | Amount of overlap when automatically breaking words when applying the Unicode Filtering algorithm. |
| UpdateFiles | Set to true to force all configuration files to be re-read when Save() is called. |
| UserThesaurusFile | User-defined synonym sets. |
| WeightChar | Character used to indicate term weighting (example: apple:5) |
| XmlIgnoreTags | Comma-separated list of tags to ignore when indexing XML |
See Also
Options Class | dtSearch.Engine Namespace