Request for Regular Expression Support in Search Query
TLDR em1nos inquired about adding regex support to search queries, which Jason confirmed is not feasible due to indexing complexities.
Jul 02, 2022 (16 months ago)
em1nos
08:03 PMSamsung [A|S][\d]{1,2} to find "Samsung A13" together with "Samsung S22" (and more)...
Jason
08:31 PM
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