Hyvel Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 I can't figure out how to use the advanced search functionality of this site to search a mods description for multiple words, e.g. dragon, sword = all mods containing words "dragon" and "sword" somewhere in the description. I'm sure there's some easy way to do it, but I'm running out of ideas here. Any help would be appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark0ne Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 If you just search for "Dragon Sword" it will do just that; only show mods with both "Dragon" and "Sword" in the title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyvel Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 Many thanks for the response, but I'm afraid it's not quite what I meant. I should have been a bit more specific: if I do an advanced search, and look for "sword dragons" (without quotation marks) in the mod description at Skyrim Nexus, there are no hits. I believe this is because the search is done for the string "sword dragons" rather than containing "sword" AND "dragons". I am guessing that there is another way to search for any mod containing both "sword" and "dragons" in the description, e.g. "sword, dragons" or "sword; dragons", but so far no luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeTheDragon Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 (edited) Well, if I search for "weapons armor" in the description, not one of the descriptions contains the literal string "weapons armor", so it's definitely not a "literal" search. But! I don't get the same results with "armor weapons", so the "order" of your search keywords must be fitting as well, it seems. Searching for "sword dragons" in the description will only yield results with descriptions first containing "sword" somewhere and then followed by "dragons" somewhere later. If "dragons" comes first and there is no other "dragons" after "sword", it will not match. It seems like the blank inbetween the two keywords is treated as a ".*" from regular expressions or a "%" from SQL's "LIKE" statements. It still requires the two keywords to occur in the description in the exact same order as queried. Edited July 15, 2012 by DrakeTheDragon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyvel Posted July 15, 2012 Author Share Posted July 15, 2012 Interesting. I've done some more testing, and it turns out that searching for "weapons armor" yields only results that contain "weapons/armor" or "Weapons/Armor" in the description, it does NOT include mods which have "weapons"....."armor" in the description (so just the words weapons and armor separately). So my original question remains: is it possible to do a search to find a mod with 2 or more specific words in the description, but not necessarily attached together? This seems like such a simple query, I can't imagine the functionality would not exist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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