Questions tagged [wildcards]
Questions regarding usage of asterisk `*` as a wildcard character for searching.
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Wildcards (*) in search are not expanded when next to a # symbol
Steps to reproduce: Go to Stack Overflow and search for [c#*] Expected: The search will expand to include any tag that starts with "c#", like [c#-3], [c#-4], etc. An example would be a ...
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Wildcard tag search expands maximum of 20 tags even when there are more
I believe I have found a bug with the wildcard expansion in tag search. Examples in Stack Overflow but are likely applicable on other sites: Working: Searching for [python-2.7] -[python*] shows no ...
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If a wildcard search only matches one tag, the "Questions tagged" header retains the asterisks
There is a single tag which matches the wildcard tag search [*owntim*]: downtime. Making that search gives me this: I've circled the interesting bits. The wildcard's auto-expansion has, as expected, ...
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I've broken the search using a wildcard
Today I managed to break one of the two search bars in the screen: Steps to reproduce: Search for [feature-request] [status*] This automatically converts your wildcard tag to all options. If your ...
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Wildcard tags unrolling issue [duplicate]
Searching for [status-*] text doesn't unroll the tags in search input (top bar + page specific): Eliminating the text from the search query will unroll the tags in the top bar search input (page ...
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Allow to search by synonym tags with wildcard
Intro. I made a search for -[tag:status-*] user:me is:q to see what number of post I have where SO employee did not reacts yet. Then I copied this search request and tried to use it for "Stack ...
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Tag wildcards `*` break URL parsing in chat
URLs containing tag wildcard characters * do not work properly in chat. This means that a chat message containing the URL https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java* will redirect to https://...
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1 answer
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How can I favorite [java*] while excluding [javascript]?
Let's say I want to follow all Java related questions on Stack Overflow. I decide to favorite java*. Everything seems to be working fine. My search includes questions about java, javafx, javadoc and......
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Tag formatting doesn't work if tag contains *wildcard characters; ie: [tag:git*] [duplicate]
Formatting tags with [tag:] does not work if the tag contains wildcard characters. For example: [tag:git] → git [tag:git*] → [tag:git*]
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The iOS app replaces wildcard tags when you edit any tag
As of February this year, the iOS app supports wildcard tags - yay! I've just noticed however that while the app supports loading questions from favourite wildcard tags, if you make changes to any of ...
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Tag synonyms do not work with wildcards for featured search
I noticed that the following URL does not come back with any results (I am on the featured tab): https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/mssql* However, mssql is a synonym for sql-server, and the ...
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Wildchars in tags preferences [duplicate]
There are favorite and ignored tags in Preferences. They need to explicitly list your tags. I would like to have wild char support here, so for example *PHP* will find PHP, PHP3, PHP4, PHPUnit, ...
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Search for tags with wildcards but exclude one
I will very often trawl Super User for questions that are really for Web Apps. Virtually any of Google's services are fair game for migration (assuming they're decent questions), so I do a wildcard ...
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Wildcards don't work in title searches [duplicate]
I search for: title:change - I get results I search for: title:chang* - No results I search for: chang* - I get results (body & title) Wildcard searches in the title should work or the text of "...
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Searching for perl* tags accidentally includes regex
When you use a wildcard tag search on questions with any perl* tag, it erroneously includes the regex tag in the search set: Notice the regex tag at the bottom. It should not be there, because ...
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