forum search using extended regular expressions?

iamdonquixote

Everett-
Could the phpBB search function for the forums support true extended regular expression searching? I realize that it does support a sort of quasi regular expression matching but could it support seaches like "[s-S]plit [b-B]u*" or "[welded dash | smooth dash]" etc.

EverettB · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 8:54 pm Post subject:

No, it doesn't, it just converts the search into a simple sql statement
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iamdonquixote · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:18 pm Post subject:

bummer...
I often find the search function a bit unwieldy
I assume the php language supports regexs is it that the database doesn't understand them?

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EverettB · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 11:30 am Post subject:

iamdonquixote · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 5:56 pm Post subject:

the program ? I guess you mean phpbb. ah. this this the abosolutely great thing about open source, someone can just write a regular expression module for it. Wink


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