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Originally Posted by NatCh
I don't think the search here recognizes quote marks as indicating a literal string, but rather just boolean ands each term, so '"The House" Borderland' would get searched for as "The AND House" AND Borderland. I could easily be wrong on that, though.  |
I did some testing on this and I don't think the search does a boolean and within quotes. If it were doing a boolean and would there be a point in using quotes at all? My understanding is if you just type in the the words, in this case 'the house borderland' it would do a boolean and with the three words 'the AND house AND Borderland' giving you no reason to use quotes. One of my tests was on
Master Humphrey's Clock I tried
"Master Clock"
This did not return any results.
but if I try
"Master Humphrey's"
I do get a result
This test leads me to believe that the search is not just a boolean and but is in fact a literal string.
I looked on the vbulletin site but their documentation does not get into search in this much detail.
Is there a site admin that would care to jump in?
P.S. Reading back through my post before posting I thought that it may come across as argumentative. I don't mean this to be the case at all. I am not positive I am correct and may not be. So if it comes across as argumentative please forgive me as I don't intend it to be so.