Welcome to Codidact Meta!
Codidact Meta is the meta-discussion site for the Codidact community network and the Codidact software. Whether you have bug reports or feature requests, support questions or rule discussions that touch the whole network – this is the site for you.
Comments on I can't search for -finalized
Post
I can't search for -finalized
(This is not just an issue on the specific site mentioned - it seems to affect any Codidact site.)
If I search Code Golf Codidact for "finalized" there are results, showing that the word "finalized" is one of the words the search recognizes.
However, if I search for "-finalized" there are no results, even though the results for "finalized" were only a small subset of the total posts.
I've found the same behavior with other words, such as "integer", "string", and "number". They all work fine as standard searches, but don't work when trying to exclude them with a hyphen. This seems to affect all recognized words.
Multiple exclusions also do not work, such as "-integer -string".
Using a hyphen to exclude a term does work if a standard (not excluding) term is used before it, such as "integer -string". It also works the other way around, such as "-string integer".
Is it intended that search terms featuring only exclusion be usable?
1 comment thread