Union, intersection, exclusion

[indeterminatus]

Please don't hate me for this, I was just sitting there and playing around with tag2find, when it hit me: Is it planned to allow more specific searches? As I understand it right now, the result of the search is the intersection of all the sets of the tags, so the separator "," is in fact a logical AND.

It could be neat to allow also logical OR and logical NOT as junctors, and while I'm at it, arbitrary nesting of those.

Sample search: "music AND (score OR classical) AND NOT crap".

[martin]

Hi indeterminatus,

We are currently working out the syntax and parser for queries similar like this. It will take some time to finish all work on this, as we are currently also busy working on all other feedback submitted to us. But it will come

Best regards,
Martin

PS: we never ever will hate someone for submitting good feedback to us

[nimishbatra]

may I draw your attention to http://datadraw.sourceforge.net/ and http://www.sqlite.org/ ?
They're libraries for implementing databases directly in C. Supposed to give a faster level of performance.

The former allows building customised databases, the latter is based on SQL.

Even if they cannot be used at this point, they might come in handy sometime soon.

[martin]

Thanks for the pointers.

If you take a close look at which files are being deployed with tag2find, you'll see that we already make heavy use of SQLite. Its really a fine piece of software.

DataDraw until now slipped my notice, but it also looks quite promising. I'll definitely keep this in mind.

Thanks again.

Best regards,
Martin

[nimishbatra]

If you take a close look at which files are being deployed with tag2find

Hey I'm not a dev guy ya know Electrical Engineer. Well mostly.
So any time anyone needs help in Turbo C++ for DOS, I'm your man

[martin]

Good to know! Could come handy one day!

[Samstag]

Hi, I' m looking forward to have logical operators as a future feature,
then one could maybe also implement userdefined rules like: IF tagged with "X" AND NOT "Y" suggest tag "Z".
Exluding Tags with an right click in the tagcloud would be useful for navigation.
Thanks a lot for this great Programm!!

[martin]

Hi,

thanks for this great suggestion. We will add this to the wish list. I'm glad you like tag2find. Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Martin