Searchcode: A source code search engine

Re:Searchcode: A source code search engine by boyter on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @08:36PM (#7947546)

Howdy. Thats mostly because searchcode is trying to match exactly "eval($_GET" and currently has none in the index. Looking at GitHub it seems to come back with only 4 results which are exact and the rest as loose matches.

I am seeing a pattern that most people would prefer the loose match over exact to get back more results, but with the exact matches (if any) at the top.

I will take this onboard and see if I can improve things.

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Re:Searchcode: A source code search engine by zapt02 on Thursday June 26, 2014 @09:41AM (#7949543)

If you search for an exact match you still get almost 600 results, see:

https://github.com/search?q=%22eval%28%24_GET%22&type=Code&r...

I would definitely expect the google pattern of doing exact match when in quotes. Throw in a regexp engine as well, because I tried using wildcards and that didn't do anything.

For example, if searching for vulnerabilities I would like to be able to do something like:

  eval(.*$_[(GET|POST)].*)

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