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Re: PCBNew Find and "match words"

 

Another way to solve this is the Google approach:  match internal
substrings unless you put the search term in "quotes" in which case only
match complete words.

On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 2:43 PM Kliment (Future Bits) <kliment@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> One issue I can think of offhand is that searching for "R2" would find
> "R21" and searching for "1uF" would match "0.1uF", both of which would
> be annoying. Maybe an "allow partial matches" checkbox?
>
> On 26.07.19 20:39, Jeff Young wrote:
> > PCBNew’s current Find does a match against the whole string.  I think it
> would be more intuitive with a ‘*’ in front and back of the search string
> (so that it finds partial matches).
> >
> > Any other opinions?
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