SQLite full text search catalog

Question

I wonder if the following is possible with fts(3/4) for SQLite. I created a table with some data using fts3.

If i for example search for e* i get everything that sta

Answer 1

the documentation of the snippet function is rather vague regarding its 6th parameter because the algorithm uses a best-score approach to find the snippet.

Nevertheless in my application i get a clean extract of the original terms I am looking for with the request :

select snippet(docs,'','','', -1, 1) from docs where docs match 'e*';

It may help in your case ; this in-database solution helped me because i didn't want to extract the terms in code located outside of the db. It works if you are searching for single words (no space, OR, .. in the MATCH query)