How to do a string search?

[OmegaZero]

The documentation provides an example for how to do a search on the last four of the SSN, but how do you setup a string search? For something like a last name where the length could be variable - an example would be nice to see.

Thanks!

[paragonie-scott]

Check the examples directory. We have complete examples there.

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The documentation provides an example for how to do a search on the last four of the SSN, but how do you setup a string search? For something like a last name where the length could be variable - an example would be nice to see.

Thanks!

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[OmegaZero]

Unless I'm looking in the wrong place the only example I can see if the SSN example I mentioned before...?

[paragonie-scott]

Can you please clarify what you mean by "string search"?

Blind indexes can only be created on:

• Entire string literals, or
• Deterministic transformations of the input string

The LastFourDigits in our code is an example of the transformation. You could also do one where, given a user's full name, you index strtolower($firstName[0] . $lastName).

This doesn't support wildcards or regular expressions. You'd need a crazy academic scheme for full text searching an encrypted database.

[OmegaZero]

Ah ok I misunderstood the potential (and wasn't sure how it was done to begin with - makes sense now :) )

I'll just limit it to searching on the first letter of the last name, thanks!

[paragonie-scott]

No problem at all. I'm going to tag this as a documentation issue since it could be made clearer.

[paragonie-scott]

I've updated the README to make this a bit clearer. Thanks for your feedback. :)