On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 02:01:08PM -0700, koyaanisqatsi@nupedia.com wrote:
A question: I mentioned in the feature requests that a search for "John MacDonald" will not turn up "John A. MacDonald" or "John D MacDonald". So I tried to search for _ , with the purpose of changing them back to spaces so that those terms will turn up in searches. But that search returned 6055 pages, which is a problem in itself, but the one :-) that I checked did not contain an underscore at all. Is there some way to perform this search accurately?0
Since you can use regulare expressions you might try looking for
John.*MacDonald
The problem with the '_' is that Gareth also searches the titles of the articles in the form where the spaces are replaced with underscores. So the result of the search contains also all the articles with a space in the title. Perhaps the search should be limited to the body of the articles? I think it would be nice anyway to have a separate search for bodies and titles.
Kind regards,
-- Jan Hidders