Search

A library for searching and sorting lists of data with fields content: String and dateTime: Time.Posix.

Examples

The data is colors with elements of the form

type alias Datum = { content: String, dateTime: Time.Posix }

> colors 
  |> List.map .content
  ["alizarin yellow","brown umber","yellow ochre","pthalo blue"
  ,"french yellow","alizarin crimson, cadmium purple"]

Simple search

> search NotCaseSensitive "yellow" colors 
  |> List.map .content
  ["alizarin yellow","yellow ochre","french yellow"]

Search on fragments

> search NotCaseSensitive "fr" colors 
  |> List.map .content
  ["french yellow"]

Conjunctive search

> search NotCaseSensitive "yell french" colors 
  |> List.map .content
  ["french yellow"] : List String

Negation

> search NotCaseSensitive "yell -french" colors 
  |> List.map .content
  ["alizarin yellow","yellow ochre"]

Date-time:

> search NotCaseSensitive "@before:7/1/2021" colors 
  |> List.map .content
  ["alizarin yellow","brown umber"]

Date-time and word fragment

> search NotCaseSensitive "@before:7/1/2021 yellow" colors 
  |> List.map .content
  ["alizarin yellow"]

Sorting

Alphabetical

> sort (Alpha Increasing) colors 
  |> List.map .content
  ["alizarin crimson, cadmium purple","alizarin yellow"
  ,"brown umber","french yellow","pthalo blue","yellow ochre"]

Date

> sort (DateTime  Decreasing) colors |> List.map .content
  ["alizarin crimson, cadmium purple","french yellow","pthalo blue"
  ,"yellow ochre","brown umber","alizarin yellow"]

Random order

> sort (Random seed1) colors 
  |> List.map .content
  ["alizarin crimson, cadmium purple","alizarin yellow"
  ,"brown umber","yellow ochre","french yellow","pthalo blue"]
  
> sort (Random seed2) colors 
  |> List.map .content
  ["yellow ochre","pthalo blue","brown umber","french yellow"
  ,"alizarin yellow","alizarin crimson, cadmium purple"]