in reply to •Re: Re3: new super search
in thread new super search

...I set "-on-" and typed "-"...

He said to put a space between the letters and the delimiters. Of course, then you wouldn't get things that begin or end with "on"...and I can't get regexes to work either...

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(tye)Re3: new super search
by tye (Sage) on Oct 09, 2002 at 06:33 UTC

    In the simple search (at the top of every page here), when you search for a single letter (say "x"), it searches for records where ' '+title+' ' like '% x %', which allows the space-separated "x" to appear at the front or back of the title without having to incur the CPU penalty for pulling in the powerful regex engine.

    That would be a reasonable enhancement to super search's title searching capabilities, especially if it is made smart enough to avoid the space concatenation when there are no search terms that begin and/or end with a space.

    Any takers?

            - tye (one of those who rlike 'Tye')