Discoveries regarding item searching

Discussion in 'Card Hunter General Chat' started by faraway9911, Dec 20, 2015.

  1. faraway9911

    faraway9911 War Monkey

    On http://wiki.cardhuntria.com/wiki/Searching_the_Inventory are some tips for searching for items in your keep. Note the similarity of syntax to regexes. Inspired by this, I investigated further and have a better idea of how internally the item search works.

    Each card on an item is used to generate a file with the following lines:
    • The name of the card
    • The abbreviated name of the card (e.g. Thick. Mail for Thickened Mail)
    • The name of the item which the card is from
    • The damage method (Melee/Magic/Projectile/Sonic)
    • The damage type (Piercing, Radiation, etc.)
    • The description, not including italicized flavortext. Underlined text is surrounded by <u> </u> tags.
    • "damage: " and the damage, or -1 if it's not a damaging card.
    • "range: " and the range, or -1 if it has none.
    • "move: " and the move amount, or -1 if it has none.
    • "[null]"
    egrep is then used on the above file with your input as case-insensitive query, and if an item has ANY cards with successful greps, the item is displayed in your keep.

    Useful (and not-so-useful) consequences:
    • The query "^Bash$" returns items with the 5-damage bashes, which are incredibly annoying to search for otherwise
    • The query "!$" gives you all Shuffle, Team! thru Sprint, Team! cards.
    • The query ">$" gives all cards with Arcane Spray. Due to a typo, this is the only card which ends underlined.
    • The query "damage: -1" returns all items with at least one non-damaging card. There is no way to return all items without non-damaging cards.
    • There is no way to search for >1 quality at once, or the rarity or token requirements of an item.
    Suggestion: Concatenate all the above item information into 1 line (with some suitable separator, say "|"), then feed it through egrep.
     
  2. visak13

    visak13 Ogre

    Thanks a lot! This really helped.
     

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