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authorGravatar Alexandre Alapetite <alexandre@alapetite.fr> 2024-09-06 09:35:58 +0200
committerGravatar GitHub <noreply@github.com> 2024-09-06 09:35:58 +0200
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parent35a7634e68d87ad4da46c96ee8066e8c681f8d18 (diff)
Regex search (#6706)
* Regex search fix https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/issues/3549 * Fix PHPStan * Fix escape * Fix ungreedy * Initial support for regex search in PostgreSQL and MySQL * Improvements, support MySQL * Fix multiline * Add support for SQLite * A few tests * Added author: and inurl: support, documentation * author example * Remove \b for now * Disable regex sanitization for now * Fix getInurlRegex * getNotInurlRegex * Quotes for inurl: * Fix test * Fix quoted tags + regex for tags https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/issues/6761 * Fix wrong regex detection * Add MariaDB * Fix logic * Increase requirements for MySQL and MariaDB Check support for multiline mode in MySQL * Remove sanitizeRegexes() * Allow searching HTML code Allow searching for instance `/<pre>/` Fix https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/issues/6775#issuecomment-2331769883 * Doc regex search HTML * Fix Doctype
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@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ You can use the search field to further refine results:
* by author: `author:name` or `author:'composed name'`
* by title: `intitle:keyword` or `intitle:'composed keyword'`
* by URL: `inurl:keyword` or `inurl:'composed keyword'`
-* by tag: `#tag` or `#tag+with+whitespace`
+* by tag: `#tag` or `#tag+with+whitespace` or or `#'tag with whitespace'`
* by free-text: `keyword` or `'composed keyword'`
* by date of discovery, using the [ISO 8601 time interval format](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_intervals): `date:<date-interval>`
* From a specific day, or month, or year:
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ can be used to combine several search criteria with a logical *or* instead: `aut
You don’t have to do anything special to combine multiple negative operators. Writing `!intitle:'thing1' !intitle:'thing2'` implies AND, see above. For more pointers on how AND and OR interact with negation, see [this GitHub comment](https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS/issues/3236#issuecomment-891219460).
Additional reading: [De Morgan’s laws](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Morgan%27s_laws).
+> ℹ️ Searches are applied to the raw HTML content
+
Finally, parentheses may be used to express more complex queries, with basic negation support:
* `(author:Alice OR intitle:hello) (author:Bob OR intitle:world)`
@@ -115,6 +117,31 @@ Finally, parentheses may be used to express more complex queries, with basic neg
> ℹ️ If you need to search for a parenthesis, it needs to be escaped like `\(` or `\)`
+### Regex
+
+Text searches (including `author:`, `intitle:`, `inurl:`, `#`) may use regular expressions, which must be enclosed in `/ /`.
+
+Regex searches are case-sensitive by default, but can be made case-insensitive with the `i` modifier like: `/Alice/i`
+
+Supports multiline mode with `m` modifier like: `/^Alice/m`
+
+> ℹ️ `author:` is working with one author per line, so the multiline mode may advantageously be used, like: `author:/^Alice Dupont$/im`
+>
+> ℹ️ `#` is likewise working with one tag per line, so the multiline mode may advantageously be used, like: `#/^Hello World$/im`
+
+Example to search entries, which title starts with the *Lol* word, with any number of *o*: `intitle:/^Lo+l/i`
+
+As opposed to normal searches, HTML special characters are not escaped in regex searches, to allow searching HTML code, like: `/Hello <span>world<\/span>/`
+
+⚠️ Advanced regex syntax details depend on the regex engine used:
+
+* FreshRSS filter actions such as auto-mark-as-read and auto-favourite use [PHP preg_match](https://php.net/function.preg-match).
+* Regex searches depend on which database you are using:
+ * For SQLite, [PHP preg_match](https://php.net/function.preg-match) is used;
+ * [For PostgreSQL](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-POSIX-REGEXP);
+ * [For MariaDB](https://mariadb.com/kb/en/pcre/);
+ * [For MySQL](https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/9.0/en/regexp.html#function_regexp-like).
+
## By sorting by date
You can change the sort order by clicking the toggle button available in the header.