I propose that the help node for the Search and Super Search facilities, Using the Simple Search, be updated to explicitly say what sort of search strings are allowed.

Empirically, I have found (single quotes here bracket the search expressions used)

  1. 'kvale' and 'kv' find my home node, but 'kva+le' does not. So exact words and and exact substrings are allowed, but regexes are apparently not.
  2. 'kv and ale' does not perform a proper conjunction, but 'kv && ale' does.
  3. in the expression 'kv ale' the space represents an implied or between 'kv' and 'ale'
  4. '! kvale' returns kvale as a node, so doesn't seem to work
  5. ' (kv && ale)' does not return my homenode, so grouping does not seem to work.
Any other rules?

-Mark

In reply to Nature of (Super )?Search queries ? by kvale

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