Wildcat characters on search. Do we have them?

[mr5]

Hi, sorry for so basic question, but I didn't find the answer after seraching all docs and forum...
Can we use wild characters * or ? on search? Documentation mentions them only when searching for a user, but not in a general album search. Could it be that wildcat characters are not supported at search???  For example, '?' does not work for "any character".
Thanks

[Αndré]

Wildcard '?' isn't supported out of the box, but '*' is.

If you want to use '?' as wildcard, open include/search.inc.php, find

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$search_string = strtr($search_string, array('_' => '\_', '%' => '\%', '*' => '%'));
and replace with

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$search_string = strtr($search_string, array('_' => '\_', '%' => '\%', '*' => '%', '?' => '_'));

[mr5]

Thanks a lot Andre! The change works OK. I would suggest to make it permanent as it helps a lot, specially when searching on text with special national characters.
I see that '*' includes string with blanks, that is will find a string with blanks inside. This is news to me, but it probably should work this way. You can close this. Thanks.

[Αndré]

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