[ARC5] Question about finding our treasures on eBay...

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 8 Aug 2013 at 13:02, J. Forster wrote:

> Why?
> 
> My 2nd string is intended to return all capacitors, except ceramic.
> 
> capacitor -ceramic  is supposed to mean "capacitor AND NOT ceramic"
> 
> It gets interpreted as something like "capacitors OR ceramic".
> 
> The way the eBay strings should be parsed is:
> 
> Word1 Word2    =  Word1 AND Word2
> Word1 -Word2   =  Word1 AND NOT Word2
> (Word1,Word2)  =  Word1 OR Word2

Well, perhaps the problem is that Evil-bays search function views -ceramic 
and -ceramics as two different search criteria.

In other words, it doesn't recognize "ceramic" as "polyCERAMICs" as any 
normal search engine should. Furthermore, it sometimes decides there is a 
difference between capitalized words and lower-case words...or letters.

If you want to search for a plural word in an ad, you have to specify plural. 
Singular won't do it. And it won't recognize wild cards either.

It is crap.

Ken W7EKB