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The topic is a bit vague
I often search for anime which title consists of more than one word. For example To Heart Remember my memories. If I search for heart, I get many results, if I search for remember, I get less results, if I search for memories, I probably get some more results again. So I'd like to search with "heart remeber". This unfortunately delivers 0 results because of the trailing-space-bug-that's-not-a-bug-but-a-feature. Using wildcards doesn't work either (heart*rememeber). In other sitations, I only know parts of the title (like samurai <something I don't know> dragon), but each search delivers assloads of results, which makes it very tedious to find the title.

Is there a way to search more effective I'm not aware of?

CU,
lamer_de

A search with "Remember my memories":
http://anidb.ath.cx/perl-bin/animedb.pl ... y+memories

A search with "samurai" without synonyms:
http://anidb.ath.cx/perl-bin/animedb.pl ... &noalias=1

Amour, you're missing the point...
the point is that you can't search for "remember memories" or for anything else where there's 1 or more words between the 2 words used for searching

lamer_de wrote:Is there a way to search more effective I'm not aware of?

exp confirmed that this* is a bug (don't ask me in which thread, though ^^;)

*) Not the "trailing space" issue, but rather the fact that spaces between search terms are supposed to be replaced by wildcards, so while "heart remember" should find the title (<- this is the bug), "heart remember " should not.

In the meantime, you can manually add the SQL-wildcard to your queries if you like, for example "Remember%Memories" to search for titles that "Start with 'Remember', followed by 0 or more other characters, followed by 'Memories'".
Keep in mind that both the word-order and spaces still count (so "Samurai % Champloo" won't find anything while "Samurai%Champloo" will).

kk, thanks, that helps.

CU,
lamer_de

Wow great wahaha! Didn't know that

nwa wrote:Amour, you're missing the point...
the point is that you can't search for "remember memories" or for anything else where there's 1 or more words between the 2 words used for searching

He is a master in missing the point. I think his only goal is to missing the point of what others say.