Posted by Wendy B on April 12, 2001, at 23:03:06
In reply to Re: Searching the titles, posted by Dr. Bob on April 12, 2001, at 20:26:05
> > I'd like to know how to search on people's names in the >title< of the messages, >not< necessarily in the body of the text.
> >
> > Is this possible?
>
> In fact it is, just search for "title:santa" or whatever. BTW, this is mentioned at the bottom of the search page:
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> http://www.dr-bob.org/cgi-bin/xv/search.pl
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> Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way to search for posts *by* a particular person. That's on my to-do list...
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> BobDear Dr. Bob,
Thank you for answering my query so quickly. Yes, I'm afraid I wasn't expressing my question clearly enough (even though I'm a librarian)... What I meant was exactly that - posts *by* a particular person. This is why I asked, because it isn't on the instructions on the search page.How far down is it on the to-do list? (if you don't mind my asking...) Am I right in thinking you have to write some code (Perl scripts, or whatever) to do this? Do you write your own, or does someone do it for you?
Best regards,
Wendy B.
poster:Wendy B
thread:1008
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