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SUGGESTION: Enable regex on all search boxes
I think it would be a really good idea to enable regex on all search boxes in the game.
People who don't know what regex is, or don't know how to use it, wouldn't really be affected, while those who do have a lot to gain from it.
It also shouldn't be hard to implement, since regex is so widespread, and such a core part of basically any programming language, that it likely wouldn't take long to implement it.
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For example, let's say we have this possible list of items:
red
black
blue
yellow
black
bleu
And let's say we want to search for one OR another, say red or blue. Our search pattern would look like 'red|blue', and the output would be:
red
blue
We could also have blue and bleu, and we might be interested in both, so we could use the 'or' logical operator for single characters, such as: 'red|bl[ue][ue]', which would output:
red
blue
bleu
Now a more concrete example would be in the auction house, let's say I'm looking for angel wings, and I want either red or violet angel wings, I would search for '([Rr]ed|[Bb]lue) [Aa]ngel [Ww]ings'
All in all I think this would be an amazing feature for those who know how to use it, and it won't hurt at all those who can't use it
And it's really useful, I use regex all the time at work
As for the idea its self, heck yeah go with throttle up.
EDIT I just noticed in the text *.*, that was by accident!
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Literally my face when learning about Regex.
It's not so bad. You already use some of it now. Along with * theres - which means don't count this or a set of quotes which mean literally the string between them, + means this must be in the search. These are all regular expression you probably already know.
"Regex" is a syllabic abbreviation, like Interpol is a syllabic abbreviation of International Police. Opsec, Tribeca, SoHo, and Gestapo are other examples.
I can barely grasp the concept of CSS.. if that has anything to do with it.. heck I don't know, coding in general is hard for me to grasp.
I wish I could understand you, computer. :C
There's really not much to it. It's a list of functions that allow you to narrow down searches. Say you wanted to search in Google for all instances of Mabinogi and characters named Sherri (so Sherri, Sherri55, SherriFTW, and so on), but they all must have a reference to G10, but not include Jousting you would do this:
Mabinogi Sherri* +G10 -Jousting.
Mabinogi and Sherri* have nothing in front of them so it would start looking for cases with either of these terms (not just ones with both).
The * in Sherri* means any number of non-white-space characters tacked on to Sherri or no characters at all (white space is: blanks, tabs, line returns, carriage returns, etc.).
The + in front of +G10 means the search result must include the term G10.
The - in front of -Jousting means it specifically must NOT include the term Jousting.
There are more functions, say, that deal with parsing white space or, say, specifying a specific number of characters and so on. Somewhere on-line you can find a list of these things that you could save to a text file, say. Then you'd have a list of them. It's no more complicated than keeping a list of AltNumber characters.
Clear as mud?