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		LukeShu on June 26, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Searchcode: A source code search engine Perhaps support regex search? Russ Cox did a write up of how he implemented regex search for Google Code, back when that was a thing.

boyter on June 26, 2014 [–]

Yes I have looked at that. The catch is it would require another copy of the index, and I don't quite want to front the cash for that.

I did write some code which would turn a regex query into a normal sphinx query some time ago so I am going to try to implement that again and hopefully get similar results.

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