special character in metadata search

happyuser · 10-18-2011, 09:19 PM

Hi, a lot of the books I read have "C++" in it but it seems the metadata search doesn't handle "+" properly and therefore it always gets empty results. I had to remove the text "C++" and whatever's before it to hope for a partial match.

Is there a workaround or fix for this?

theducks · 10-19-2011, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by happyuser

Hi, a lot of the books I read have "C++" in it but it seems the metadata search doesn't handle "+" properly and therefore it always gets empty results. I had to remove the text "C++" and whatever's before it to hope for a partial match.

Is there a workaround or fix for this?

Plus is in the group: special character
they must be escaped when included in the search term.

search: C\+\+

10-18-2011, 09:19 PM	#1
happyuser Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2011 Device: none	special character in metadata search Hi, a lot of the books I read have "C++" in it but it seems the metadata search doesn't handle "+" properly and therefore it always gets empty results. I had to remove the text "C++" and whatever's before it to hope for a partial match. Is there a workaround or fix for this?

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