Member Search

[sewforlife]

I was wondering if DS or someone could change the member search. You can only search people by their exact user name, say, if I was trying to find sewforlife, and then I only remembered part of the user, maybe sew. so I could type in sew, and it would be whatever username contains "sew" in it, that would show up.
Just wondering if that could be changed.

[gyourkoshaven]

If you search whatever parts you remember, then put an asterisk (*) then it matches all possibilities. For example if you are looking for me and you remember gyo, then search gyo* and gyourkoshaven is the only thing that comes up. This works for all of the fill-in the blank fields.

[fmtiger124]

the only problem is it only searches the beginning of the user name like if I search tiger* I don't appear

[andrewwski]

Then you need to search *tiger*.

It's simple search operators, the same as you'd find on any other search. * is the wildcard operator.

[fmtiger124]

Then you need to search *tiger*.

It's simple search operators, the same as you'd find on any other search. * is the wildcard operator.

oh i get it tiger* looks for tiger in front and then anything else

*tiger looks for something then tiger and

*tiger* looks for something then tiger then something

[gh]

You can use it anywhere, as many times as needed. So a search for "fm*ger*" would match you, as well.

Alternatively, everyone should just have short, easy to remember user names (and real names).