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Try searching for queen x03 using Internet search - no results.

Now try queen 1x03 - lots of results.

oferlaor wrote:Try searching for queen x03 using Internet search - no results.

Now try queen 1x03 - lots of results.

I suspect that is because the indexing is by 'words' and you need to match the start of the word to be found which in this case is 1x03!

Try searching for something like queen *x03 and see what happens.

itimpi wrote:I suspect that is because the indexing is by 'words' and you need to match the start of the word to be found which in this case is 1x03!
Try searching for something like queen *x03 and see what happens.

itimpi is partially correct. We do index by keywords, so "x03" will not match if there is no whitespace on either side. The incorrect part is the asterisk will not work as a wildcard in Internet Search. If you are using local search, you can come up with a regular expression that will work like this but for Internet Search, it needs to match full keywords. It will stem known English words though, so searching for "run" would also find "runs" and "running" bu 1x03 is not recognized as a word so it is indexed as 4 characters.

that's really weird. I tried queen.*x03 and fully expected to have a result...

Is there a way to search without having the search text start necessarily after a dot/space/etc.?

I'm basically looking for a text query syntax that will work for me when searching for anything containing queen and then containing x03 AFTER the word queen?

If you are searching using Local search, the regular expression queen.+x03 will work. For Internet Search, I don't have a solution for you. It is a simple boolean search mechanism looking for keywords.

Don't know if this helps but it's useful to know...
In this instance i would tend to do an internet search for queen, get loads of results, then remove queen from the search box and type x01 however, don't press the search button, it automatically searches within your previous results. You could then take out the x01 put x02 etc without doing a new search.

Yes, that's a great use of the sub-search feature in Newsbin. The only issue may be that "queen" may be too broad of a search and you'll hit the 2000 search result limit. You can get around that by clicking icon that says "Load older files into the list", that will get the next 2000 results and add it to the first 2000. Then a sub-search will be pretty effective.

Thanks for mentioning this, I had not thought of this as a potential solution for this case.