lobsters/lobsters

impossible to search for c++

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#1,268 opened on Apr 4, 2024

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Description

I wanted to find my past comments that mentioned C++, but it seemed that the ++ was ignored. I tried quoting with " and escaping with \ neither of which worked.

I looked at the source code and it seems strip_operators in lobsters/app/models/search.rb removes almost all punctuation.

Could it please be relaxed to retain + (for C++) and # (for C# and F#)?

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Examine the strip operators method in app/models/search.rb and modify it to allow '+' and '#' characters for searching terms like C++ and C#.
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