I'm seaching for a way to find a series of numbers in a text.
This can either be a youtube description or just a news feed message.
So what i need is a way to search for numbers, where i know the length of, but don't know the numbers.
Example:
searching for => 123456789 (BUT i don't know the last 2 numbers)
so i would like to search for => 1234567**
Unfortunately, you can't use * in searchbars.
I tried some query related stuff, like * or % but this doesn't work.
Does anyone know a way how to do it?
You can use .. in google to search for not known numbers.
Example: 1234567.. or 123456..
This doesn't work in youtube unfortunately.
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I'm trying to search for strings with wildcard letters. For example, "te*t" should return both the results for test and tent (and text etc.) Google doesn't seem to have a built-in function that accomplishes this. Is it possible with an API or something? Are there alternatives to Google for this for full texts? Like searching "Y*s *e c**" and getting "Yes we can" and all other results that fit?
https://www.wordsmyth.net/?mode=browse This site has that feature but only for words, I'm looking to do the same thing with Google or Bing or any other search engine
Sorry if this has been asked before, thank you in advance.
Performing wild carding on wrongly spelled term will not allow autocorrection/dym be calculated for the non wild carded term.
Example:
Searching iphont will be autocorected to iphone and return
results.
Searching for iphont* will not get corrected and return any results or
suggestions.
I understand there is an processing order but is there an OOB way to make this work instead of doing 2 queries (wild carded query, if no results regular query)?
According to documentation wild carded searches don't support several search features like autocorrection, dym, phrased search, thesaurus etc.
I'm trying to do a wildcard search on Wikipedia but the search is not behaving the way the instructions say it should. Here's the advanced search help page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Advanced_search
As an example, it says this regarding a Wildcard search:
the query *stan will match Kazakhstan or Afghanistan or Stan Kenton.
However, when I attempt to do that search (or even click on the embedded link to that search), I only get
the page *stan does not exist
and it just lists a bunch of "Stan" entries starting with "Stan Laurel filmography."
Why would this feature not work? Am I missing something?
It does work, however because direct matches for "stan" are scored higher than words with it, Kazakhstan is waaaay down in results. You can try slightly narrowing the results with intitle:*stan however this is still bad. However, a quick check with k*stan shows that it works.
Conclusion: user-written help page has a bad example.
Trying to search tiles through the api using a generator.
I notice that there are two possible generators, with both I have problems:
prefix search - doesn't work well if I have multiple words and the order is reversed in the query (for example "brian adams" would return an answer, however "adams brian" does not
search - seems to not allow searching by titles, only by text which returns low-quality results.
Anyone knows of a way around this?
"srwhat=title" is disabled, so you should use "intitle:" in your search query:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=search&srnamespace=0&srprop=timestamp&&srsearch=intitle:adams%20brian
for more info please check this page:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Search
With my current project I need to display the exact search phrase entered on the results/no-results pages.
However the {exp:search:keywords} variable seems to have insignificant keywords removed.
“Who am I?” becomes “who am”
I understand why this is the case but for the purposes of this particular website I need the exact phrase.
Does anyone know how I can achieve this ? Please let there be a workaround...
I am using the Simple Search module in 2.7.0
Thanks.
/system/expressionengine/modules/search/mod.search.php:236 (v2.7.0)
//$original_keywords = $this->keywords;
$original_keywords = $_POST['keywords'];