Pro tip: use regular expressions for searching

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#1

Maybe you are not all aware of the fact that you can use regular expressions for searching on collections. It’s an undocumented feature, and it seems to only operate on individual words, but it’s nevertheless a very useful thing to know.

I will not try to explain regular expressions here; you can google that. But here are a couple examples (don’t include the double quotes):

  • find all occurrences of ‘scomparso’ or ‘sparito’: “scomparso|sparito”
  • find all occurrences of words beginning with ‘scom’: “scom.*”
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#2

Thanks for alerting us to this, I love regex. This is very useful to know, even if it’s only applicable to individual words!

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#3

Grazie @morbrorper Molto utile!

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#4

This tip no longer works. As far as I know, you can now use * as a wildcard, but that is a lot less flexible

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#5

Thanks for the tip! Super helpful for languages that use inflection.

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