New search option

Is there any way we can search by length of post rather than content and member only? For instance, if I would like to find posts where I wrote more than a 100 words, would this be possible? It's a feature I'd like to see. I'd like to see some of the longer stuff I've posted without having to drone through some of the other drivel that I have also posted.

Don't think it's possible with our current stuffs but I'm sure it's possible with some custom stuff. There would have to be a "word count" for posts and you'd search for posts above a certain "word count" I guess. Perhaps base it off of number of characters, since I think there's already something somewhat like that with the "more than 5 characters" rule.

I'm not sure, but it might be possible to search by number of characters. Number of words is out unless it's number of unique words.

Well searching by number of words would most likely be essentially searching by number of characters. I know usually when a program does a "word count" it just divides the number of characters by 5 I think.

I'm not sure, but it might be possible to search by number of characters. Number of words is out unless it's number of unique words.

Would number of characters be easily implementable?

WW could do it, he's the man.

There are two things that are an absolute nightmare to follow in vB: promotions and the search engine. And I still havn't checked the MySQL documentation to see if there is a string length function and if I can use it on a text type field.

This is certainly an idea with merit, but for now, I'm going to have to prioritize the forum upgrade. Speaking of which, why the hell isn't anyone testing it? I'm sure that there's all sorts of style issues I havn't noticed, but the only one reported is the quick reply. I really don't want to switch over then drown in problems.