I love stag handled knives. I collect Schrade USA. I wanted to search all the thread titles in the Schrade Legacy forum for the word "stag" so I could find all threads about stag handled Schrade knives.
This cannot be done. The word "stag" is excluded as being too common. Please fix this. I think many people might want to search for that word all over this site.
search exclusions are annoying - "stag" exclusion
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search exclusions are annoying - "stag" exclusion
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Re: search exclusions are annoying - "stag" exclusion
Instead of searching for stag try this:
*stag*
This just worked for me.
*stag*
This just worked for me.
Doug
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The words vintage and antique are vague. Actually most words are vague. Even the word vague is vague.
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Re: search exclusions are annoying - "stag" exclusion
Does * before and after a word give certain instruction to the computer ?
In what other situations is * helpful ?
kj
In what other situations is * helpful ?
kj
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Re: search exclusions are annoying - "stag" exclusion
Thanks. That gets it done.
KJ, often an asterisk is used as a "wildcard" in computer commands meaning it can be anything. In this case its a wildcard within a word (no spaces) so fakestag, staglon, bonestag etc will all get displayed. Any prefix and any suffix with stag in there somewhere. Now the word is 6 letters long and uncommon and the search algorithm isn't excluding it. It now displays the plain old "stag" hits I wanted in the first place as well.
Read up about "wildcards" or "wildcard use" in Windows etc if you want to go deep.
KJ, often an asterisk is used as a "wildcard" in computer commands meaning it can be anything. In this case its a wildcard within a word (no spaces) so fakestag, staglon, bonestag etc will all get displayed. Any prefix and any suffix with stag in there somewhere. Now the word is 6 letters long and uncommon and the search algorithm isn't excluding it. It now displays the plain old "stag" hits I wanted in the first place as well.
Read up about "wildcards" or "wildcard use" in Windows etc if you want to go deep.
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Re: search exclusions are annoying - "stag" exclusion
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Re: search exclusions are annoying - "stag" exclusion
Thanks for explaining the use of "*" in search function.
kj
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