SmashenYT

2 | 6 hours ago

Hey I really appreciate you trying to help me!

I now did as you said and put it like this “energy|m life|speed”. This highlights all energy shield or max life or movement speed items. So thats definitely a step forward!

I tried to make it a little bit smarter, to only highlight ES items that have max life on it. But it seems impossible from what I gathered so far, from youtube to poe2.re etc etc

wyrmise

3 | 5 hours ago

try "max life" "energy", this functions as an AND meaning it would only match if the item has both max life and energy shield.

SmashenYT

2 | 5 hours ago

“max life” sadly doesnt work but I know what you meant so I put it like this

“max.+ life” “energy” this highlights all the energy items with max life. This is cool and all, this isnt fixing the issue I have because I want a smarter regex that also highlights boots with movement speed :( but thank you of course

wyrmise

2 | 5 hours ago

oh sorry, I misread your post. I actually looked into this myself a while back and sadly couldn’t find a solution either. Poe actually does not use regex at all and it only implements a subset of the regex syntax so its quite limited. In the end I had to settle for using 2 separate queries.

SmashenYT

2 | 5 hours ago

yea this is my only solution right now as well

But I dont get it.. you can literally search for maps that dont have this and that modifier and be level xy also include this and that mod I really like !!

But you cant make an easy vendor search for your SSF char? That highlights 3 important stats on an item? The only problem with this is the AND and OR clause.

Because if I literally look for energy|“m life”|speed this completely works. Highlights all the energy items, max life and movement speed gear.

But then I have to manually check each one if energy shield and max life are actually present on the same item.

Edit: Sorry if I confuse you haha I think you know what I mean with all that

InterpretiveTrail

2 | 5 hours ago

Sorry, I’ve not finished my tea and answered wrong :)

What you’re look for is (< literally a space). In PoE, the space character acts as an AND. And as you already know | is OR.

Let me build up to the regex … if you’re looking for: (Movement Speed) or (Energey Shield AND Maximum Life), then it’d be (movement) or (energy AND m life). Which in PoE regex is: movement|energy "m life". Pretty sure that energy will have false positives in what it matches, but hopefully this gives you what you were actually looking for.

Also to over explain, when you want to use an (space) as part of what you’re looking for you wrap it in double quotes. So saying movement|energy "m life" like a computer: Show me items with the string movement OR items with the string energy and the string m life.

SmashenYT

2 | 5 hours ago

This is exactly what I was also thinking! Thats why Im so tripple confused.

Your regex is what I came up with as well. movement|energy “m life”

This should like you said be:

Highlight items with movement speed.

Highlight items with energy shield AND max life on it.

But as soon as I write movement|energy “m li” the movement speed boots arent highlighted anymore ???

https://i.imgur.com/bq2JaMx.png

As you can see in the picture they have 10% movement speed, and all items with ES + max life are highlighted.. jesus im going insane with this xD *sips coffee*

InterpretiveTrail

2 | 4 hours ago

Oh god, I see the problem you’re doing so sorry for the confusion that I’m causing.

So in my stash, I’m getting to the point where I can do energy life|movement and it works in terms of finding (energy and life) OR (energy and movment). It’s not finding (energy and life) OR (movment).

Which, I really can’t tell you that I’ve every made regexs that look for multiple types of items in one regex like that. Usually I have a regex per item that I’m looking for in the vendor or stash.

So then I wanted to simplify the problem and just do "m life"|movement and that does NOT work. (yipee simplier problem to “debug” with). We know doing life|movement and that works. Okay then it’s something to do with the "m life" portion.

Even doing things like "m life"|resistance or some other string for after the OR doesn’t work. So it’s something to do with the use of double quotes and pipe. Let’s really simplify it: "life"|resistance … doesn’t work! Simplifying the issue even further! So it really does seems like double quotes into a pipe doesn’t work. It’ll highlight the first string (life) and not the second one (resistance). Replicated this behavior for several different strings. Rapid fire:

“life|movment” highlights bases with life OR movement
“life”|“movement” doesn’t work at all.
life|“movement” only finds movement!! (that’s weird)
“m life|movement” finds “maximum life” OR movment

IMO, it just looks like a limitation of how regex was implemented in PoE. Even though we’ve access to ANDs and ORs in the regex, it doesn’t seem to be we’ve “access” to appropriate nesting of statements such that we’re able to do what you’re trying to achieve. That’s just my guess after toying with it.

I did also pop open PoE1 to see if maybe it’s a PoE2 difference, but the behavior we see in PoE2 is the same as in PoE1.

Again sorry the the confusion and could not figure out an answer for you either, but best of luck in trying to figure it out.

SmashenYT

2 | 4 hours ago

Jesus this is making my day haha 😂 I so appreciate you trying to help!

This is my first time trying to use regex and my “simple” search is such a brain cracker.

I KNEW SOMETHING WAS UP!! All the spaces or quotation marks etc it’s sooo wonky, it just wont do what I want reeee.

“life”|“movement” doesnt work at all

but life|“movement” shows all the movement items? XDDDD brooo what is happening

TLDR: Just put 2 notes into your favorite text editor, put them both into the vendor search, one after another, and that’s it 😂😂😂

Vendor search question (regex)