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Search for operators [duplicate]
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Is it possible to search for punctuation/special characters?
It seems to be impossible to search for !!, << and probably more essential characters and character ...
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How do I search for syntax stuff like "==="? [duplicate]
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Is it possible to search for punctuation/special characters?
I just did a search on javascript === on StackOverflow, and was taken to the page with all questions tagged ...
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How to find a question regarding the negation/not operator (!)? [duplicate]
I am sure there are a few questions on SO about usage of the negation operator (!) in C#, but I haven't been able to find them.
How would one go about finding questions that discuss the proper usage ...
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Search Seemingly Not Working [duplicate]
I searched a couple of times today for an answer and received 0 results. I then asked a question, and was immediately downvoted due to it being a duplicate question. And it was almost a word-for-word ...
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Unable to search for === [duplicate]
I had a question the differences between Javascript and PHP's handling of == vs === (== vs === in Javascript). I tried to be a good user and do a search but it looks like it errors or least returns no ...
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A new search engine for Stack Exchange
After the performance problems we have run into with Lucene.NET we've decided to make a change, we're moving the network on to elasticsearch.
Here's where to get started: https://stackoverflow.com/...
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Stack Overflow has too many "too localised" new questions [closed]
SO started off as a site for interesting programming questions.
Although the odd "help me please" localised debugging help question would pop up once in a while, this was inevitable so we just sort ...
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How Could We Fix "The Ternary Operator Problem" [closed]
Well-intentioned people tend to ask the same question over and over again: What does this mean:
var foo = bar ? 1 : 0;
It's the thing which most people (notably: most people on SO) call "the ternary ...
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How to search || and or on StackOverflow?
One of my questions was closed, because of being a duplicate. My question is how can I search for duplicates for my original question. The keywords in my mind are:
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ruby
rails
Putting the ...
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Don't exclude results that have punctuation just because the query doesn't [closed]
The new search function allows quoted queries that include punctuation, and this is fantastic, most of the time. However, the search considers the punctuation as part of the word itself, so searches ...
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How can I search for a string containing a colon?
I'm trying to conduct a search for a specific class name (containing colons): e.g. search parameters [perl] Class::Data and am coming up empty:
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[perl]%20class::data&...
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Search does not return any results for <%#
Search seems to be broken,
Search does not return any results for <%#
I looked at :
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/help/searching
But It did not help.
update: With more trial and error I ...
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Has this bug been fixed: "Is it possible to search for punctuation/special characters?" [duplicate]
Sorry if this is a duplicate question. I'm working on my searching skills.
What I get from the original post is that this question was asked then tagged as a possible bug in 2009, and then tagged ...
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How do I search for "application/xml"?
When I try to search for "application/xml" it instead searches for "applicationxml". How am I supposed to phrase this search?
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Shouldn't all characters be searchable on a programmer's QA site? [duplicate]
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How can I search for a string containing a colon?
Searching for non-word character sequences (which are operators in many languages) feels like it should be a doable thing on ...
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