User Guide

Using the Verity didump Utility 207
To view the occurrences of a specific word or pattern, enter a command using the
-pattern option, as in the following example:
didump -pattern acronym 00000003.did
The didump utility will display information about the number of occurrences of the
word “acronym.” You can display the individual occurrences of a word using the
verbose (-verbose) option.
Viewing the zone list with didump
The zone list contains a list of the zones identified by the zone filter. The zones listed
can be searched using the Verity IN operator in a query. To view the contents of zone
list, use didump with the -zones flag plus the path name to a partition, like this:
didump -zones /z/collbldg/html/parts/00000003.did
The partition above is for a collection containing the Verity Collection Building Guide
in HTML format. The Verity universal filter invoked the HTML filter by default and
indexed the documents using these zones.
didump - Verity, Inc. Version 2.5.0 (_solaris, Jul 07 1999)
ZoneName Fmt Size Doc Regions
A Wct 10239 85 5016
ADDRESS Array 34 1 1
BODY Array 197 85 85
CAPTION Wct 298 31 85
CODE Wct 3868 66 1829
H1 Array 80 83 83
H2 Wct 646 53 212
H3 Wct 517 49 171
H4 Wct 128 8 47
HEAD Array 70 85 85
HTML Array 165 85 85
TITLE Array 70 85 85
The columns in the display indicate:
• Fmt The internal data format used to store the zone information.
• Size The number of bytes used by the Verity engine to store information about
the zone.
•
Doc The number of unique documents in which the zone appears
•
Region The total number of instances of a zone for the partition
For complete information about the how zones are defined, refer to Chapter 11.