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[Frankk]

IMHO NOT operator could be very useful with global search enabled, I have used it many times in eMule. For example try searching for "Alien" on aMule, you will get lots of "alien vs predator" making search results difficult to read, a simple "alien NOT predator" query solved the problem. In such cases I always prefer to search for files in my Windows machine then copy ed2k links and paste in aMule.

So please consider adding NOT operator too if it is not too difficult (I think that it is easyer then OR to implement).

Frankk

[lfroen]

Frakk: please read BEFORE posting. I have explained why NOT operator will not help you.

[Frankk]

lfroen: please believe me that I always read the thread before posting.
I don't fully agree with your previous post, and I really used the NOT operator and it have been very useful in many situations. probably because the xyz string (of your example) wasn't present in so many results.

I understand that a server implementation would be the best solution, but still useful on client to filter what I'm sure is NOT what I need in search results.

I don't understand why you say that all (or almost all) the 200 results that the server sends me must have the xyz string. Isn't it possible that 50% hane and 50 don't? In this case NOT can be very useful. I indeed think that NOT operator is very useful when the majority of the results DO HAVE xyz string.

Please excuse me if I completery misunderstood the problem.

Frankk

[Kry]

lfroen, if you don't find use for it, don't use it, but stop flaming

[Xaignar]

NOT can be implemented locally simply by dropping results containing that string ... though of course, as lfroen said, that will just result in fewer overall results instead of more correct results due to the fact that the server is still limited at 200 results.

[reeky]

maybe a google-like solution could be inplemented; i mean a string like "try to remove the NOT operator in order to see all the results" displayed somewhere    :]

[Xaignar]

Dynamic filtering of the resultlist is planned, but I wont be implementing till after 2.0 and it will probably be implemented using regular-expressions, because I hate you all and love reg-exprs.

[Frankk]

Originally posted by Xaignar
Dynamic filtering of the resultlist is planned, but I wont be implementing till after 2.0 and it will probably be implemented using regular-expressions, because I hate you all and love reg-exprs.

Sounds ok to me

[Kry]

OTOH, I hate regexps so it will be avail also without regexps.

Oh, and I also hate you all.