Watch For/Search For String with Period

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Watch For/Search For String with Period

Postby TBlack » Sun Oct 05, 2014 10:00 am

Trying out Watch Topics, it seems the Search For entry cannot handle a . (Period) in the string, i.e. the difference between "Word" or 'Word." or ".Word" Many Headers have .'s in the Subject Title and I use it to Search on Headers sometimes.

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Re: Watch For/Search For String with Period

Postby Quade » Sun Oct 05, 2014 12:46 pm

[.] - escapes the period makes it "literal period".

Period has a special meaning in regular expressions. It means "Any character". I assume you're doing local watch lists of your headers.
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Re: Watch For/Search For String with Period

Postby TBlack » Sun Oct 05, 2014 1:18 pm

Yes, local Watch List of Headers.

Yep, the braces per your example did the trick.

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Re: Watch For/Search For String with Period

Postby Quade » Sun Oct 05, 2014 2:13 pm

6.60 is getting a heavy re-work on the watch lists. In fact I'd say improving them will be the primary focus of 6.60.

- Getting watch working with the search engine.

- I've already added "per watch" download and unrar paths.

- Improving duplicate detection so, you only end up with one copy of the same file even if it was posted by different posting groups.
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Re: Watch For/Search For String with Period

Postby TBlack » Sun Oct 05, 2014 2:31 pm

Sounds good.

Think about this. When the user selects Rescan Topic, just do it (or offer a switch). Suggest not making the user have to select "Start Scan" to start the Rescan. Just a thought.
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