Repo search does not sort by alphabet properly?

[ppi-rloving]

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I would expect to be able to find PetPartners.API.Pet on the first page of results by typing in Api.Pet
But even if I type that out completely its listed way down the list (see screenshot).

[queenofcorgis]

@ppi-rloving - thanks for asking this question. Would you mind specifying exactly where you're searching so I can play around with this and see what I can learn?

[ppi-rloving]

I’m not sure that you would be able to play around in a private group. https://github.com/petpartners …but here’s an example. Oddly, the place where Petpartners.Api.Pet shows in the search is not consistent (this probably because the preselected filter is “last updated”, but shouldn’t that be applied after the alphabetical search is applied?). When I originally posted this question, Api.Pet turned up too far down the search to take a reasonably representative screenshot. Q comes after P, and C comes before. Maybe my expectation that the common root “PetPartners” would be ignored is the problem. Typing the full name “petpartners.api.pet” in the search is what I’m trying to avoid, but as can be seen in the 2nd screenshot, that seems to make things worse, and api.pet is not even presented in first page results.  Example using fully qualified name in search. Filters: type:private language: c#  **** From: Lili ***@***.***> Sent: Wednesday, September 4, 2024 9:39 AM @ppi-rloving<https://github.com/ppi-rloving> - thanks for asking this question. Would you mind specifying exactly where you're searching so I can play around with this and see what I can learn? —

[ppi-rloving]

It appears I can't add screenshots directly to my reply, only links :-(
but, here's a silly exercise with a simplified example that I asked AI to weigh in on:

I asked ai:
if I am searching by name a list of names that have periods in them, such as "d.e.a", "d.e.b", "d.e.c", "d.e.d", and I search for "d.e.b", shouldn't "d.e.b" show as the first and only result?

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Yes, you're absolutely right.

If you're searching for "d.e.b" in a list containing "d.e.a", "d.e.b", "d.e.c", and "d.e.d", "d.e.b" should be the only result that appears, and it should be the first one.

This is because the search query is an exact match for the name "d.e.b". Any search algorithm that prioritizes exact matches should return "d.e.b" as the top result.

If you're experiencing different results, it might be due to:

Case sensitivity: Some search functions are case-sensitive. Ensure that your search query matches the case of the names in the list.
Character encoding: If the list contains characters from different languages or encodings, it's possible that the search function might not be handling them correctly.
Search algorithm issues: In rare cases, there might be a bug or inefficiency in the search algorithm that's causing incorrect results.

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