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Special "text-only" paste-in option
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Adam Dampc |
I would like to be able to paste into the search bar text cleansed of all punctuation signs "- . , ' ; :", so that I don't have to manually remove all the dots, commas, semicolons, etc.
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Team UltraSearch
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Team UltraSearch
Thank you for your feature request. Can you please provide some examples of search terms you would use with this feature? And can you tell us the source of these search terms?
Adam Dampc
For example, I might want to check if I've already downloaded the police quarterly dated 3/2022, which is available here for download: kwartalnik.csp.edu.pl/kp/archiwum-1/2022/32022. The special paste-in function would remove the slash automatically. Or how about this? I have a picture of a person on my disc, and the image file is named like this: " Perkowski Karol, stow. 'Wolne miasto Warszawa' ". I might be interested in whether the person representing the 'Wolne miasto Warszawa' Association shows up anywhere else in the vast collection of my files (I've been busy conducting a private investigation for more than 10 years, but it has nothing to do with this particular guy). Again, it would take a lot of time to manually remove the coma, the dot, and the apostrophes. A lot of similar scenarios are possible, and a special paste-in feature would be a great time saver.
Team UltraSearch
> which is available here for download: kwartalnik.csp.edu.pl/kp/archiwum-1/2022/32022. The special paste-in function would remove the slash automatically.
Well, that would make:
kwartalnik.csp.edu.plkparchiwum-1202232022
How does that help? What is the actual file name that you are trying to find with this URL?
Team UltraSearch
> remove the coma, the dot, and the apostrophes
The dot and the apostrophe is commonly used in file names, I doubt that removing those fits many use cases.
Adam Dampc
No! I didn't mean the slash in the link string. The file name for download is at the bottom of the page: "Kwartalnik Policyjny nr 3/2022"
Team UltraSearch
Hi Adam, feel free to contact me as product manager of UltraSearch under: treesize@jam-software.com
It might be better to discuss this by email. To better understand these use cases, it would be good to have a table with some samples and the columns: Original string, Origin of original string, cleaned string, and file name that should be found.
Adam Dampc
It doesn't matter that dots and apostrophes are commonly used in file names. The point is that I do not necessarily know/remember how I named a particular file saved on the disc. It may be an HTM file with an article which used a question mark in the title. That question mark has to be removed or replaced with something else (for ex. with '^') before saving. Similarly, colons ':' need to replaced with a dash (that's what I usually do). If I want to quickly check if I have that .htm article, or whatever else on the disc that concerns the researched person or institution, the key to success are bare words, stripped of all punctuation! A special paste-in function would make the process speedier. The colons, dashes, and sometimes the question marks are placed in the middle of the word sequence (e.g., an article entitled "Fit every day? Why not?"; on my disc it would probably be reedited as "Fit every day^ Why not^").
Team UltraSearch
Status changed to: Under review