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So let's say I have an issue with some code and I want to use google to help find a solution. So I paste a code snippet into the search bar. Google will ignore any special characters like operators (especially the '.' operator), returning results that aren't as relevant as I'd like. This is true even when encasing it in double quotes. It's also annoying when trying to use something like 'C#' as part of a search. Does anyone know of a search engine that respects your special characters?
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Non-alphanumeric characters comprise of all the characters except alphabets and numbers. It can be punctuation characters like exclamation mark(!), at symbol(@), commas(, ), question mark(?), colon(:), dash(-) etc and special characters like dollar sign($), equal symbol(=), plus sign(+), apostrophes(').
Non-alphanumeric characters are characters that are not numbers (0-9) or alphabetic characters. Alphabetic characters are defined as a-z, A-Z, and alphabetic characters in the Latin-1 code page 850.
To remove all non-alphanumeric characters from a string, call the replace() method, passing it a regular expression that matches all non-alphanumeric characters as the first parameter and an empty string as the second. The replace method returns a new string with all matches replaced.
Non-Alphanumeric characters are the other characters on your keyboard that aren't letters or numbers, e.g. commas, brackets, space, asterisk and so on. Any character that is not a number or letter (in upper or lower case) is non-alphanumeric. These could be grouped as Punctuation characters !
We were frustrated by this too, so we made a search engine that allows special characters!
try http://www.symbolhound.com
it's a web search (unlike google codesearch) that respects symbols. This should help. The index is growing every day, so you should be able to find relevant responses!
Good luck.
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On krugle, a search for "cs[i]" in quotes seems to work... as it does also in google codesearch...
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