My personal preference here would be that the search was NOT a regular
expression search by default, and that the search results page offered regex
search as an option once you got that far.
Derek.
On 8/9/07, Craig Andera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Missed this one until now.
>
>
>
> So maybe the right thing to do here is to have a checkbox that says,
> "Search using a regular expression" ? So normally it's just a literal
> pattern, but if you check the box it's a regex. While that solves the
> problem, it does so by pushing the decision onto the user, which arguably
> isn't ideal.
>
>
>
> Any input here? I'm not 100% sure what to do.
>
>
>
> *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Helen Ersando
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 07, 2007 8:25 PM
> *To:* FlexWiki Users Mailing List
> *Subject:* Re: [Flexwiki-users] About Flexwiki's Authentication and
> Authorization
>
>
>
> OK, so the problem here is that the search textbox accepts a regular
> expression as input [1]. Well, "?home" is an illegal regular expression. I
> guess the thing to do here is to display a more friendly error message? Or
> were you looking for some other behavior?
>
> can it behave just like the other characters like /, &, #, etc? or yeah, a
> more friendly error message above or within the search.aspx page... :)
>
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