Basic usage

Let

match =
    Search.withQueryString
        identity
        Search.NotCaseSensitive
        "foo -bar | baz"

Run match on the list

    [ "foo yada", "foo bar", "hehe, baza baza!" ]

It will return

    [ "foo yada", "hehe, baza baza!" ]

The query string foo -bar | baz is of the form P | Q. It will match anything that matches P or Q. The term P is form word1 -word2 It will match anything that contains word1 but not word2. Similarly, word1 word2 matches anything that contains word1 and word2.

Non-string data

Suppose that you want to query data of type List Datum. You can do this if you have function like digest : Datum -> String. For example, if

type alias Datum =
  {   title: String
    , tags : List String
    , ... other stuff ...
   }

Then digest datum = String.join " " title::tags does the job — you can search using

Search.withQueryString
    digest
    Search.NotCaseSensitive
    "foo -bar | baz"