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English => aMule Help => Topic started by: x_x_kamikaze_x_x on June 22, 2012, 06:11:55 PM

Title: How to make useful searches?
Post by: x_x_kamikaze_x_x on June 22, 2012, 06:11:55 PM

Hi aMule people!

I have a little problem trying to find some files that have a specific name
when the words are in continuous order, but these words are common if
files on disordered position.

I was reading the aMule FAQ, but I didn't find nothing useful
(http://wiki.amule.org/index.php/Getting_Started#Advanced_Searches)

It's possible to find some words on specific order?
(like google when you use the double quotes ["some sentence"] )

Ex.:

If I am looking for the " black spirit", I want that find files with the exact sentence,
not "The spirit that become black" or "Black market, sell your spirit" or whatever.

It exist a method to do that? Or it can't be done?

Thanks for all!  :)

Title: Re: How to make useful searches?
Post by: Stu Redman on June 22, 2012, 11:05:20 PM

Hi Kami,

this doesn't work, at least not with Kad. (I'm not sure how the search on ED2K servers works. If there are any left that is.)
In Kad you always search for a single keyword, and then refine the search by the other words or options you pass to the search. For the search index the file names are broken into tokens at their word boundaries, and these words are what is searched for. Searching with wildcards or regular expressions is impossible with the concept.

Title: Re: How to make useful searches?
Post by: GonoszTopi on June 23, 2012, 04:12:34 PM

Still it's possible to re-scan the original search expression for double-quoted substrings, and filter results to display only those that match the "contains these words in this order" criteria.

However, this isn't likely to be implemented in the near future, unless someone comes up with a working patch.