NAME Search::Mousse - A simple and fast inverted index SYNOPSIS my $mousse = Search::Mousse->new( directory => $directory, name => 'recipes', ); my $recipe = $mousse->fetch("Hearty Russian Beet Soup"); my @recipes = $mousse->search("crumb"); my @recipe_keys = $mousse->search_keys("italian soup"); DESCRIPTION Search::Mousse provides a simple and fast inverted index. It is intended for constant databases (this is why it can be fast). Documents have a key, keywords (which the document can later be search for with) and a value (which can be a Perl data structure or object). Use Search::Mousse::Writer to construct a database. The default stemmer is: sub { my $words = lc shift; return uniq(split / /, $words); } Why is it called Search::Mousse? Well, in culinary terms, mousses are simple to make, can include quite complicated ingredients, and are inverted before presentation. CONSTRUCTOR new The constructor takes a few arguments: the directory to store files in, and a name for the database. If you have a custom stemmer, also pass it in: my $mousse = Search::Mousse->new( directory => $directory, name => 'recipes', ); my $mousse2 = Search::Mousse->new( directory => $directory, name => 'photos', stemmer => \&stemmer, ); METHODS fetch Returns a value from the database, given a key: my $recipe = $mousse->fetch("Hearty Russian Beet Soup"); fetch_related If you have used Search::Mousse::Writer::Related to analyse the database, the fetch_related() method returns a list of values that are similar to the given key: my @recipes = $mousse->fetch_related("Hearty Russian Beet Soup"); fetch_related_keys If you have used Search::Mousse::Writer::Related to analyse the database, the fetch_related_keys() method returns a list of keys that are similar to the given key: my @keys = $mousse->fetch_related_keys("Hearty Russian Beet Soup"); search Returns a list of values that have all the keywords passed: my @recipes = $mousse->search("white bread"); search_keys Returns a list of keys that have all the keywords passed: my @recipe_keys = $mousse->search_keys("italian soup"); SEE ALSO Search::Mousse::Writer, Search::Mousse::Writer::Related AUTHOR Leon Brocard, "" COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 2005, Leon Brocard This module is free software; you can redistribute it or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.