Search only does full words?
14-Mar-23 3:08pm
#1 John
This may be "by design", but just wanted to mention it just in case...
I used the forum search to try to find the closed "Let's talk snacks" thread. I put in "snack" and searched subjects in General -- and found no matches. I changed it to "snacks" later and found it fine. I felt like "snack" should have found it.
But, again, if you are doing that on purpose, then not a big deal. 👍
#1 John
This may be "by design", but just wanted to mention it just in case...
I used the forum search to try to find the closed "Let's talk snacks" thread. I put in "snack" and searched subjects in General -- and found no matches. I changed it to "snacks" later and found it fine. I felt like "snack" should have found it.
But, again, if you are doing that on purpose, then not a big deal. 👍
14-Mar-23 3:20pm
#2 bill
It has been a while since I looked at this, but from memory, this is more-or-less how it works. I'm using MySQL's fulltext search feature which matches words. It's very fast, so that's really helpful, but it has these cases like this that are not great. If I have it search by any string, it's much slower, so slow in some cases that it can wedge the site.
It's probably more complicated than that. The same is true for game searches as well. Also, it does support some quoting and such, so maybe there's a sneaky way to do it (but I'm forgetting it offhand).
It has been like this for many years, not something new. Though, there's some chance that moving to UTF-8 characters could affect this.
#2 bill
It has been a while since I looked at this, but from memory, this is more-or-less how it works. I'm using MySQL's fulltext search feature which matches words. It's very fast, so that's really helpful, but it has these cases like this that are not great. If I have it search by any string, it's much slower, so slow in some cases that it can wedge the site.
It's probably more complicated than that. The same is true for game searches as well. Also, it does support some quoting and such, so maybe there's a sneaky way to do it (but I'm forgetting it offhand).
It has been like this for many years, not something new. Though, there's some chance that moving to UTF-8 characters could affect this.
14-Mar-23 3:49pm
#4 bill
I did some searches to see if there was some way to prod MySQL into matching plural forms, but I didn't have much luck.
#4 bill
I did some searches to see if there was some way to prod MySQL into matching plural forms, but I didn't have much luck.
1-Apr-23 9:59am
#7 DrizzDrizzDrizz
bill wrote:
DuckDuckGo found it with just "snack" *shrug* https://duckduckgo.c...
maybe because of the word snack in original post, while John searched subjects only?
#7 DrizzDrizzDrizz
bill wrote:
DuckDuckGo found it with just "snack" *shrug* https://duckduckgo.c...
maybe because of the word snack in original post, while John searched subjects only?
Search only does full words?