NAME

Search::Xapian::TermIterator - Iterate over sets of terms.

DESCRIPTION

This object represents a stream of terms. It overloads ++ for incrementing the iterator, or you can explicitly call the inc method. This class also overloads 'eq',ne, and "" (stringification)

METHODS

new

Constructor. Defaults to a uninitialized iterator.

clone
inc

Increase the iterator by one. (Called implictly by '++' overloading )

skip_to <tname>

Skip the iterator to term tname, or the first term after tname if tname isn't in the list of terms being iterated.

get_termname

Get the name of the current term.

get_wdf

Return the wdf of the current term (if meaningful).

get_termfreq

Return the term frequency of the current term (if meaningful).

positionlist_begin

Return Search::Xapian:::PositionIterator pointing to start of positionlist for current term.

positionlist_end

Return Search::Xapian:::PositionIterator pointing to end of positionlist for current term.

get_description

Returns a string describing this object.

equal <term>

Checks if a term is the same as this term. Also overloaded to the 'eq' operator.

nequal <term>

Checks if a term is dfferent from this term. Also overloaded to the 'ne' operator.

SEE ALSO

Search::Xapian,Search::Xapian::Document