When I am searching for example 'CGLI' it does not gives me back the matches for 'CGLIB':
https://github.com/SquareSquash/java/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=CGLI
How can I force to give it back?
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What in the world are you asking? – David Deutsch Feb 19 '16 at 02:30
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He wants a wildcard search for `CGLI*` I believe. – Tim Biegeleisen Feb 19 '16 at 02:33
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yes thats correct, I am searching for a way for wildcard or regex search – LZDeak Feb 19 '16 at 22:20
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Here's how to use wildcard for files: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22714654/can-i-do-a-wildcard-search-on-github-com – kecso Feb 19 '16 at 22:21
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yes, I know that, I wanna search instead for the content – LZDeak Feb 19 '16 at 22:22
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https://help.github.com/articles/searching-code/ – kecso Feb 19 '16 at 22:23
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Click on advanced search on the search tab, that will do what you want:
https://github.com/search?l=&q=CGLI&ref=advsearch&type=Code&utf8=%E2%9C%93
But:
You can't use the following wildcard characters as part of your search query: . , : ; / \ ` ' " = * ! ? # $ & + ^ | ~ < > ( ) { } [ ]. The search will simply ignore these symbols. https://help.github.com/articles/searching-code/
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By the way this could be a github bug. I really not see what could be the reason that only advanced search support substring matching. – kecso Feb 19 '16 at 23:18