Search Syntax Question - mv 3.14

[Loy Ellen Gross <design@iinc.com>]

I'm using a database delimited by pipe (|) - I really can't change
that; the data comes from another source that is auto delimited by
pipe. I've set the catalog.cfg to

  Database            products     products.asc      PIPE

This works (text search):

  <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="mv_searchtype" VALUE="text">       
  <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="mv_sort_field" VALUE="category">   
  <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="mv_substring_match" VALUE="yes">   
  <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="mv_match_limit" VALUE="50">        
  <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="mv_index_delim" VALUE="\|">        
  <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="mv_doit" VALUE="search">           
  <INPUT MAXLENGTH="30" NAME="mv_searchspec" SIZE="13" VALUE="">

This works (glimpse search):

  <A HREF="[area scan             
     di=category                  
     df=yes                       
     tf=title                     
     ml=99                        
     dl=Art Print]">Art Prints</A>

This doesn't work (text search):

    By: <A HREF="[area scan       
      sf=author                       
      su=yes                          
      st=text                         
      tf=category                     
      id=|                            
      ml=50                           
      se=[item-field author]          
    ]">[item-field author]</A><BR>

If I escape the pipe in any way, I get a "no match" message. If I run 
as above without escaping the pipe, I get results, but the entire record
is crammed into the [item-code] field and doesn't display. I have tried
all the different variations on scan (using &, /, etc) with escaping or
not escaping, but it always comes back to no matches or all crammed 
together, no matter what I do.

This seems to have been a bug in minivend (yes, I know, the bad word) 
since I've been using it. Even though the file is clearly defined as
pipe delimited in the catalog.cfg, I still have to manually tell
minivend to use pipe on *some* searches. I've been able to correct the
problem in past catalogs by setting the default file delimiter to
pipe, but in this case, I have a number of tab-delimited files that I
don't want to mess with, either. 

Any suggestions?

  -- Loy

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Loy Ellen Gross * Web Designer & Programmer * Xcalibur Internet
  Voice: 716-344-1114 * design@iinc.com * http://www.iinc.com