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Zarius

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Search for name=" - " fails
« on: December 01, 2009, 06:51:26 am »

I've found that trying to search for:   name=" - "  does not give me any results (using 14.0.101 - haven't tried other versions).  Even if I use the wizard and change "name is" to "name contains" it doesn't work.  Searching for name=" -" (without the trailing space) gives me results (including a lot of songs that do actually contain " - ").
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Search for name=" - " fails
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2009, 07:07:38 am »

I've found that trying to search for:   name=" - "  does not give me any results (using 14.0.101 - haven't tried other versions).  Even if I use the wizard and change "name is" to "name contains" it doesn't work.  Searching for name=" -" (without the trailing space) gives me results (including a lot of songs that do actually contain " - ").
Some characters are interpreted as "special".  If you need to use one, you need to precede it with a backslash (\).  I think that could be the case here.  You're asking for an exact match though.  Maybe you meant to ask for "conains".  Try using the wizard - click on the small triangle in the search window.
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Search for name=" - " fails
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2009, 07:32:34 am »

Hi, please re-read my request.  The exact text entered into the search window is...   name=" - "   ...(ie. I'm searching for songs that have a space-dash-space within the filename, no special characters - and searching for a space-dash without the last space character works fine).  I'm not using an exact search (as that would be [...] marks rather than "..." marks).  I have, however, already tried the wizard and it shows up as "is" (which is weird as I am _not_ doing an exact search) and even if I change this to "Contains" it still shows up as "is" when I go back into the wizard - hence the reason I am reporting this as a bug.
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