boolean forum/codebank search

[philo]

I've tried doing boolean searches of the forum, the advanced dialog being the obvious place to try, but no popular syntax I've tried works. Is this supported? Thanks.

[Steve R Jones]

Yes, You can use boolean operators such as AND or OR....

Did you play around with the two tabs? Single/Multiple?

Try it some more and if needed - post some example here for OTHER MEMBERS to lend a hand.

[Elroy]

I've tried doing boolean searches of the forum, the advanced dialog being the obvious place to try, but no popular syntax I've tried works. Is this supported? Thanks.

I do use the VBForums search feature quite a bit, but I also often use my GoogleFu to search these forums. IMHO, Google has a second-to-none search engine. I just might do something like the following to find places where I've talked about a specific API:

"CopyMemory" "Elroy" site:vbforums.com

That's just a trivial example.

[philo]

Yes, You can use boolean operators such as AND or OR....

Did you play around with the two tabs? Single/Multiple?

Try it some more and if needed - post some example here for OTHER MEMBERS to lend a hand.

I tried term1 AND term2, +term1 +term2 (one google method for AND), "term1" "term2" (another google-style method for AND), on the advanced tab, none worked.


For terms I was using WM_MOUSEWHEEL , PostMessage


I ended up using google the way I have since the early days of google, with the query
site:vbforums.com "WM_MOUSEWHEEL" "PostMessage"
which yields a hard boolean result with 3 hits

and also like this
site:vbforums.com +WM_MOUSEWHEEL +PostMessage

yields 23 results that must be based on some fuzzy algorithm, and still quite helpful


And just to be sure, tried just now

WM_MOUSEWHEEL AND PostMessage

in the multiple types advanced tab

still get 9 pages of results, so many of which having just one OR the other term