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I want to simulate the question search using regex behaviour of Stack Overflow using the Stack Exchange API.
For example, using c++* for tags will give questions which have c++ as prefix in tag such as c++14, c++builder, etc.
I tried the below API request, but it didn't work.
Here I encoded the +(%2B) and *(%2A) using UTF-8 encoding.
How can I achieve this?
You can use the advanced search; it has a parameter q which accepts most of the syntax of the regular site search.
Since most of the C++ questions are also tagged with [c++], it's easier to show that it works with q=[c++-*], which the following link shows:
