CONTAINS and searching for words with an apostrophe

Question

I have a CONTEXT index in place, and I'm trying to search for the word
JOHN'SHow do you go about going that, I tried both
JOHN'S
JOHNSand neither worked.
--=Chuck

Answer 1

How are you doing your search?
SQL> create table test1 (
  2  a1 number,
  3  a2 varchar2(20));
Table created.
SQL> insert into test1 select level, 'Line '||level from dual connect by level < 500;
499 rows created.
SQL> insert into test1 values (1000, 'JOHN''S');
1 row created.
SQL> create index context_index on test1 (a2) indextype is ctxsys.context;
Index created.
SQL> select * from test1
  2  where contains (a2, 'JOHN''S') > 0;
        A1 A2
      1000 JOHN'S
SQL> select * from test1
  2  where contains (a2, 'JOHNS') > 0;
no rows selected
SQL> select * from test1
  2  where contains (a2, 'JOHN') > 0;
        A1 A2
      1000 JOHN'S