A Few Search Hints..
11-02-2006, 11:54 AM
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A Few Search Hints..
Ok, i know lotta ppl have problems searching terms with less than 3 characters, for example, i was trying to seach for information on "L6", and when i typed "L6" and click seach, it shows..
"The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : I6"
I was fustrated and shxt, but then i thought of something i'v learned in my Computer Science class, so i put this "*I6*" into search box.. guess what! I got all the results i want with "I6" marked red.
This is basically because in computers, "*" means "zero or all characters".. that means a * can be nothing, it can be"3434" or it can be "iajwfiwjfiajw3434ijwaf"..
this is called a "Wild Card" in computer terms.
other useful wild cards: "!"= "zero or one character" "?"= one character.
Sorry for my bad english, if anybody can translate into better english, please do it. Thank you alot.
"The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : I6"
I was fustrated and shxt, but then i thought of something i'v learned in my Computer Science class, so i put this "*I6*" into search box.. guess what! I got all the results i want with "I6" marked red.
This is basically because in computers, "*" means "zero or all characters".. that means a * can be nothing, it can be"3434" or it can be "iajwfiwjfiajw3434ijwaf"..
this is called a "Wild Card" in computer terms.
other useful wild cards: "!"= "zero or one character" "?"= one character.
Sorry for my bad english, if anybody can translate into better english, please do it. Thank you alot.
11-02-2006, 11:59 AM
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By the way, wild cards still have many other uses
if u want to seach for anything from a same root word, for example, u want to find "expenses" but u want to find "expensive" at the same time, u can just put "expens*", u will get results like "expense", "expenses", "expensive" and so on... hope this help.
if u want to seach for anything from a same root word, for example, u want to find "expenses" but u want to find "expensive" at the same time, u can just put "expens*", u will get results like "expense", "expenses", "expensive" and so on... hope this help.
