How would one go about searching the Monastery for nodes say but not get any of the replies to those root nodes? Perhaps using "XML" or "regex" as a keyword.

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Re: Searching only for root nodes
by belg4mit (Prior) on Jun 05, 2002 at 19:20 UTC
    One would not*, currently. I am guessing the reason you wish to do this is due to both the execssive number of hits (one for each response in the thread), It has been recently suggested (I think I did) that searches actually exclude titles, so that bad matches don't make it into the result list.

    PS> You can't search for XML, at least not without using google to search thepen.

    * If you use the google interface to thepen enter Re: in the "without the words" field.

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    perl -pew "s/\b;([mnst])/'$1/g"

(wil) Re: Searching only for root nodes
by wil (Priest) on Jun 05, 2002 at 20:23 UTC
    This topic has been brought up a few times. There seems to be a few issues that would make this a tricky task.

    ybiC requested this feature a while back and it was implemented(?) soon after.

    I don't see the option in super search however. Maybe this feature was once a part of the search but was later removed when super search was refined. I'm not sure.

    Upon closer inspection, however,there is a checkbox in your user settings that allow you to filter your search results.

    What exactly this feature means, I'm not sure. But it sounds like it might be something worth investigating.

    Update: I knew I had seen this discussed fairly recently. Take a look at this thread and kudra's reply which shows you a work around for this.

    - wil