Smart Quick search

[NikolaR]

Hello,

there are few options for quick search, but I'd appreciate new one.

Currently you can set find to exactly match to beginning and end of file name. If I want to search in middle of file name, I can also do that by disabling both check boxes.

However, problem is that if I have a large folder and have files like:

...
...
XXXXXStringToMatch
...
...
StringToMatch

and I try to look for StringToMatch i'm going to get first one in sorted list. However, it'd be good to first try to match files to beginning of file name, then if it's not found try to match by substring. Even when matching by substring, it may be good to match so that first match file name in which searched substring is at leftmost point of all.

E.g. expected would be following order of attempts

StringToMatch
XXStringToMatch
XXXXStringToMatch

You could go even further than that to make smart search
E.g. if all those matches weren't found, you can try to look approximate match, for examble by using Levenshtein distance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance).

In that case you could even try to match in this way:

StringToMatch
XXStringToMatch
XXXXStringToMatch
StrnigToMatch

Best regards,
Nikola

[sqa_wizard]

What about using

Code: Select all

*StringToMatch

at Quicksearch ?

[sheppaul]

You could go even further than that to make smart search
E.g. if all those matches weren't found, you can try to look approximate match, for examble by using Levenshtein distance

Try this one:
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=22592