tarnacious

// This seems way too difficult for what you would expect to be a pretty common task;
// taking a search string from the user and finding documents which contain some or all of the terms 
// in the search string.

// This function naively splits a search string into terms and finds documents 
// which contain some or all of the terms. Does not handle quoted terms as or ignore case as it should.
public IEnumerable<SearchResult> Search(string searchString, string[] fields)
{
    // Spit the search string and return an empty list if no search string was provided.
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(searchString)) return new List<SearchResult>();