Forum Searches {NOTEMEized}

[Hack]

Someone posted a question about using a Dll written in C++ with VB, and I know I've seen similiar questions, so I tried to do a Search using "c++" as my search criteria. It came back with:

Sorry - no matches. Please try some different terms.

The following words are either very common, too long, or too short and were not included in your search : c

Ok...how would one do a search for posts on the subject of c++?

(I tried both c++ and C++)

[NoteMe]

Remind me that I will write a tutorial on how to search properly the first day I have the time...


Well, I have no idea how this works from the inside, but I am pretty sure that when you post a post vBulletin uses addslashes() or what that function in PHP is called to to add slashes and the other one to change letters like & to &amp and so on. So searching for special characters like & and ' and + is not possible at the moement.

There is 2 solutions. Both includes using wildcards. There is 2 wildcards buildt into vBulletin. The first one is *. And is used for one or MORE letters. Like if you are searching for Direct*, you will get:

DirectX
DirectDraw
DrirectPlay
Direct3D
DirectSound
DirectShow

and so on. But this won't help you much in this situation. Since you will have to write c* and get:

cowboy
cameleon
charver


and all the other funky words that is written here on the forum. The other option you have is to use the "ONE" char wildcard. Here on vBulletin 3 it is _ so searching for:

c__ should get the results you want. But there is 2 drawbacks here. The first one is that the search will take a LOT of time. The other one is that the red keyword highlighting doesn't seem to work on on the search results. But doing the c__ search for the feedback section game me your thread:

http://vbforums.com/search.php?searchid=155357


The good thing I have to say here, is that there is a tutorial for the topic you where searching for here:
http://externalweb.exhedra.com/Direc.../GM_CPPDLL.asp



Hope this helped you out a bit.


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[Hack]

Thanks for the info and thanks for the link.

(Now, if I can only find that post again...)

[NoteMe]

No problem. Just happy to be able to help. Don't forget to add the green check mark...




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[Hack]

No problem. Just happy to be able to help. Don't forget to add the green check mark...




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Yes sir, sir!