Search with the words out of order

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Search with the words out of order

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Feature request: The overview search should work even if individual words are out of order.

For example, if I search for assembly machines making cargo bays, it should find them whether I type "cargo bay" or "bay cargo".

This would work together nicely with my other feature request:

Search assembly machines, etc. by quality of recipe

Then it wouldn't matter whether I type in "legendary cargo bay", or "cargo bay legendary", or "bay legendary cargo", or whatever.
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Re: Search with the words out of order

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There are cases where this would be very handy. There are also cases (thinking of modded games here) where you want only and exactly what you typed. Maybe a toggle for exact match?
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Re: Search with the words out of order

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Amarula wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 2:10 pm There are cases where this would be very handy. There are also cases (thinking of modded games here) where you want only and exactly what you typed. Maybe a toggle for exact match?
In search engines that's usually done by putting quotes around the item.

It could also be handled by listing exact matches first, and less-exact matches afterwards.
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Re: Search with the words out of order

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Does this work if fuzzy searching is enabled?
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