Case (in)sensitivity and/or regex-based searching

[berquist]

Uploading files from DALTON and then searching in the Package field for 'dalton' returned no hits. It would be nice to have an option for case-insensitive or regex-based search for all the fields

[nitish6174]

Thank you for bringing this up!
As for package name, I hope case-insensitive search will suffice and fuzzy matching to take care of slight spelling differences. Or infact, simply having checkboxes for each available package name will make more sense and easier to use.
Any other ideas for package field?

For the molecular formula, I have planned a regex-type search allowing queries like CH3(CH2)*CH3, C{4,6}H{10,14} etc.
For now, it just allows a very rigid syntax pattern like H 6 C 6 (similar to what is being used in URL when browsing molecules).

[berquist]

I think case-insensitive and fuzzy search is fine. Checkboxes would work, since the number is finite, but it's another thing that would need to be modified in the future if we add parsers, and personally I'd rather type than click around.

I also think that's perfectly flexible for the molecule search, where it makes more sense to have a regex.