How to Search Embedded Space?

[Foxbat]

Hi,
I'm trying to search for a multi-word program and Search is ignoring Double-quotes around the Title. As a result, it finds posts with the single words instead of anything close to what I want. I tried using %20 instead of a space, but that failed.

Is it possible to search for "Star Trek" and not get all the posts that contain the word "Star" instead of just posts about the show "Star Trek"?

 

[b4pjoe]

Try 'Star Trek'

Edit: Never mind as that does not work either.

 

[meStevo]

Star+Trek is the syntax you're looking for I think.

 

[Bobby]

Try 'Star Trek'

Edit: Never mind as that does not work either.

Star+Trek is the syntax you're looking for I think.

Both seem to work pretty well. Thank you for this guys, it has been an issue for me for years.

 

[Foxbat]

Well, none of those are exactly what I need. I even tried using RegEx to try and force search to work, but the Search engine just plain sucks rancid dingo kidneys…

For the record, I was trying to see if we ever had a discussion thread for "American Gods" as I saw the first season was included (mostly) with Amazon Prime Video. But trying to use search basically returns posts where the SatGuy has thanked God, which ignores the trailing "s" and just creates way too many posts to go through.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Here are some tips (if you can call them that) from Xenforo.

• + signifies AND operation
• | signifies OR operation
• - negates a single token
• " wraps a number of tokens to signify a phrase for searching
• * at the end of a term signifies a prefix query
• ( and ) signify precedence
• ~N after a word signifies edit distance (fuzziness)
• ~N after a phrase signifies slop amount
• In order to search for any of these special characters, they will need to be escaped with \.

All greek to me.

 

[FTA4PA]

Well, none of those are exactly what I need. I even tried using RegEx to try and force search to work, but the Search engine just plain sucks rancid dingo kidneys…

For the record, I was trying to see if we ever had a discussion thread for "American Gods" as I saw the first season was included (mostly) with Amazon Prime Video. But trying to use search basically returns posts where the SatGuy has thanked God, which ignores the trailing "s" and just creates way too many posts to go through.

Now that is weird because when I search for "American Gods" (in quotes) I get exactly 8 results (including your post) and all reference just what I searched for.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Now that is weird because when I search for "American Gods" (in quotes) I get exactly 8 results (including your post) and all reference just what I searched for.

Same here.