Feature Request - Regular Expression support for searching

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#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <regex>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
// A sample item list. The list is build by concatenating all the item
// properties into a single string per item using spaces to separate the
// item properties. (C++17 support multi-line searches, so potentially can
// use newline characters instead of spaces if your compiler supports it.)
vector<string> items =
{
"name: Facebreaker Strapped Mitts "
"quality: 20 "
"ilvl: 60 "
"rlvl: 70 ",

"name: Loreweave Elegant Ringmai "
"quality: 10 "
"ilvl: 90 "
"rlvl: 64 ",

"name: Mystery Item "
"ilvl: 100 "
};

// EXAMPLE 1 - Search for items using a value range. In this case we are
// looking for all items 70 - 100.
// const string searchStr = "ilvl: ([7-9][0-9]|100)\\b";

// EXAMPLE 2 - Search for all items which are either greater than Lvl 70
// for chaos recipe, or greater than 0 quality for glass blowers recipe.
// const string searchStr = "ilvl: ([7-9][0-9]|100)\\b|quality: ([1-9]|[0-2][0-9])\b";

// EXAMPLE 3 - Search for a particular item with multiple properties. (This
// is an AND operation.) Good for finding items like rings with resists,
// or gear wherever multiple properties matter. In this case we are looking
// for a Lorewave with an item level of 70 or above.
const string searchStr = "(?=.*ilvl: ([7-9][0-9]|100)\\b)(?=.*name: Loreweave)";

cout << "SEARCH STRING: " << searchStr << endl << endl;

// Build the regex object from the search expression. Use case insensitive
// searches and the ECMAScript regex engine so we can use a web based regex
// validator. (https://regex101.com/) to test query strings.
const regex rgx(searchStr, regex::ECMAScript | regex::icase);

// Iterate through all the items.
for(const auto & item : items)
{
smatch match;
cout << "ITEM: " << item;
if(regex_search(item, match, rgx))
{
// If the item was found, this is where you would then highlight it. In
// this case we are just printing the match instead.
cout << " >>>>> MATCHED! (HIGHLIGHT THIS ITEM) <<<<< " << endl;
}
else
{
cout << ">>>>> NO MATCH (DONT HIGHLIGHT THIS ITEM) <<<<<" << endl;
}
cout << endl;
}

return 0;
}

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yamface wrote:

99% of the playerbase doesn't even know what regex is

Would be nice if the search did search through all the relevant information though.

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Vocasek9 wrote:

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yamface wrote:

99% of the playerbase doesn't even know what regex is

Would be nice if the search did search through all the relevant information though.

Yes. Regex is overkill, but logical operators would be huge QoL.