--- cdli/cdli_files.py	2007/11/27 10:27:39	1.80.2.9
+++ cdli/cdli_files.py	2007/12/03 21:30:19	1.80.2.10
@@ -2137,6 +2137,7 @@ class CDLIRoot(Folder):
         resultset = idx.search(query_request=idxQuery,sort_index='textid')
         # put only the P-Number in the result 
         results = [res.getId[:7] for res in resultset]
+        logging.debug("searchtext: found %d texts"%len(results))
         return results
 
 
@@ -2175,8 +2176,12 @@ class CDLIRoot(Folder):
         # add whitespace before and whitespace and line-end to splitter bounds expressions
         bounds = self.splitter[indexName].bounds
         splitexp = "(%s|\s)(%%s)(%s|\s|\Z)"%(bounds,bounds)
+        # clean word expression 
+        # TODO: this should use QueryParser itself
+        word = word.replace('"','') # take out double quotes
+        # escape parens for regexp too
         # compile into regexp objects
-        wordlist = [re.compile(splitexp%w) for w in word.split(' ')]
+        wordlist = [re.compile(splitexp%re.escape(w)) for w in word.split(' ')]
             
         for line in file.split("\n"):
             for word in wordlist:
@@ -2212,6 +2217,9 @@ class CDLIRoot(Folder):
         # add whitespace to splitter bounds expressions and compile into regexp object
         bounds = self.splitter[indexName].bounds
         wordsplit = re.compile("(%s|\s)"%bounds)
+        # clean word expression 
+        # TODO: this should use QueryParser itself
+        word = word.replace('"','') # take out double quotes
         # split search terms by blanks
         words = word.split(' ')