More lenient map search

[WaterKnight]

The map search could be better and specifically not trying to match whole words or have it as a checkbox option.

Test Scenario:

Warcraft 3 Custom Maps (multiplayer, campaigns, etc.)

Download custom-made Warcraft 3 and Reforged maps & campaigns.

www.hiveworkshop.com

Actual result: Prisonbreak is missing
Expected result: includes Prisonbreak 2 v0.4

 

[Ralle]

That's how all consumer search engines work. They make a normalised form of the word entered and index it by that. Prisonbreak != Prison and will thusly not match.
It's like this for MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch. I am not sure you can find tools that easily does what you want. Unfortunately.

If anyone wants to know. We're using ElasticSearch. If you have any sort of tips for how "this is done" I am very willing to listen.

Thank you Water for the suggestion.

 

[WaterKnight]

I don't know much about Elasticsearch, but seems like there are regex Regexp query | Elasticsearch Guide [8.3] | Elastic and prefix Prefix query | Elasticsearch Guide [8.3] | Elastic queries. Those would of course not be as efficient. You could also pre-process the terms, doing your own normalizations, like by using a stemmer, then it would find maps with the term "Ruins" Warcraft 3 Custom Maps (multiplayer, campaigns, etc.) even if you type in "Ruin" Warcraft 3 Custom Maps (multiplayer, campaigns, etc.) or do word segmentation Viterbi algorithm for word segmentation for the Prisonbreak case.

 

[Ralle]

Holy shit this might be easier than I thought: