One of the problems with a regex interface is security.

You have to make sure it's not injecting code and that it's terminating in reasonable time.

Not sure why you need that tho

I used globs for that reason in one of my projects, (they translated to regex but safely) and it was sufficient for 99% of our users.

> not entirely clear to me what the separate strings with option does

I think you are talking about the option to separate different sub strings with something different than space, like that you can search for substrings where a space is included.

Like

would search with "|" as separator, but by default

Cheers Rolf
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In reply to Re: super search by regex (updated) by LanX
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