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PerlMonks has its own search features, described below. In addition, you should be able to use off-site web search engines such as Google. Searching PerlMonksUsing the Simple Search (Top)Using the Simple Search
At the top of almost every page on PerlMonks is a search box.
This lets you easily search for nodes by title. If no nodes are found with the exact title queried, then Simple Search conveniently falls through to Super Search, which executes your query as a title search. Using Super Search (Top)Using Super Search
Super Search lets you perform much more advanced searches
of content in PerlMonks. Here you may search by node or title
content and by author, and you can restrict the search to certain
sections of PerlMonks.
Super Search lists the search results with the following columns of information:
If you want to search among writeups of a particular monk, there are two ways to do this. Either you can enter the monk's username to the “authors” field; or visit the monk's home node and there follow the “Search nodes” field in the “For this user” line which drops you to Super Search with the author field pre-filled. Patterns in PerlMonks Searches (Top)Patterns in PerlMonks SearchesNeither search method supports any kind of patterns! Do not be tempted to try a regex, or anything remotely like one. Not even wildcards! No, all strings are interpreted as plain, simple strings. Search/SuperSearch simply look for these strings occurring anywhere in the title or body. (Search looks only in titles; SuperSearch looks in titles or bodies, as you choose.) No word boundaries are inferred, either. And all searching is case-insensitive. Note that, in SuperSearch, the default string separator is space, but this can be changed. In Quick Search, this default cannot be overridden. |
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