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Alt.Binz (English) => Help => Topic started by: therealjoeblow on January 15, 2012, 03:04:23 am

Title: Help with syntax to find odd-ball strings in Binsearch, etc
Post by: therealjoeblow on January 15, 2012, 03:04:23 am

Some asshole posted a collection with subject lines like:

T H I S  I S  S O M E  C O L L E C T I O N  V O L .  1  - 01 of 10 -  NAME1 (1900)
T H I S  I S  S O M E  C O L L E C T I O N  V O L .  1  - 02 of 10 -  ANOTHERNAME2 (1910)
...etc

Searching for T H I S  I S  S O M E  C O L L E C T I O N doesn't return any results, presumably  because of the spaces between each character.

Does anyone know how to search for this properly to find the entire collection?

Many thanks
The REAL Joe

Title: Re: Help with syntax to find odd-ball strings in Binsearch, etc
Post by: Rdl on January 15, 2012, 03:19:24 am

"T H I S  I S  S O M E  C O L L E C T I O N"

Title: Re: Help with syntax to find odd-ball strings in Binsearch, etc
Post by: Hecks on January 15, 2012, 03:52:03 am

You also have to figure that if a poster can't even get a subject line right, that's a strong hint that the post isn't worth bothering with.

Title: Re: Help with syntax to find odd-ball strings in Binsearch, etc
Post by: therealjoeblow on January 15, 2012, 05:11:19 am

@RDL: quotes around it doesn't work.

@Hecks: not necessarily true

Here's a real example,

C U L T  C L A S S I C S - 14 of 20 - THE WILD AND THE WICKED  (1956)

If you search for THE WILD AND THE WICKED you'll pick it up; if you search for "C U L T  C L A S S I C S" you get nothing...

Title: Re: Help with syntax to find odd-ball strings in Binsearch, etc
Post by: Hecks on January 15, 2012, 11:19:34 am

Most full text indexes / reverse indexes have a minimum word size, and will ignore any 1-letter 'words' unless they've been especially configured not to.