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As your item collection grows, finding specific items becomes a huge chore. [http://www.cardhunter.com/ Card Hunter] provides an inventory search tool which consists of a series of buttons and search fields for users to click or enter keywords when performing searches. There are four major functions in the tool: a dropdown menu for item filtering, item usability button that ties in with the active character sheet, a text input field for keyword searches and toggle buttons that arrange items based on its characteristics. These are visible right at the top of the inventory sheet while visiting any in-game shop or the Keep (Fig 1). This guide presents all the necessary information useful for searching the inventory and some undocumented tips and tricks that you can use to speed up item searches.


[[File:Search_bar.jpg‎|center|frame|650px|Fig. 1:The inventory search tool]]


==Filtering items based on item types==

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| STYLE="vertical-align: center; text-align:justify;" align="left" |Item filters are accessible via a dropdown menu when clicking on the <span style="color: yellow">'''first arrow button'''</span> on the left of the 'All Items' text box (Fig. 2). There are '''19''' item type filters available sorted by alphabetical order. Simply select the appropriate option and the inventory will show only items belonging to said category. To reset the item filter, instead of selecting the All Items option, click the <span style="color: yellow">'''Reset'''</span> button to the right of the dropdown arrow button. The item type filter can be used as is or in combination with the other search functions. For completeness, all the item filter options are listed below.
| rowspan=2 | [[File:item_type filter.jpg|thumb|200px|Fig. 2: The item type filter]]
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{| align="left" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" |
|width="21%"|All Items ''(default)''
|width="21%"|[[:Category:Divine Armor|Divine Armor]]
|width="21%"|[[:Category:Dwarf Skill|Dwarf Skill]]
|width="21%"|[[:Category:Human Skill|Human Skill]]
|width="21%"|[[:Category:Staff|Staff]]
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|[[:Category:Arcane Item|Arcane Item]]
|[[:Category:Divine Item|Divine Item]]
|[[:Category:Elf Skill|Elf Skill]]
|[[:Category:Martial Skill|Martial Skill]]
|[[:Category:Treasure|Treasure]]
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|[[:Category:Arcane Skill|Arcane Skill]]
|[[:Category:Divine Skill|Divine Skill]]
|[[:Category:Heavy Armor|Heavy Armor]]
|[[:Category:Robe|Robes]]
|[[:Category:Weapon|Weapon]]
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|[[:Category:Boots|Boots]]
|[[:Category:Divine Weapon|Divine Weapon]]
|[[:Category:Helmet|Helmet]]
|[[:Category:Shield|Shield]]
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==Filtering items based on usability==

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| STYLE="vertical-align: center; text-align:justify;" align="left" |On the right of the <span style="color: yellow">'''Reset'''</span> button lies a single usability toggle button. Clicking the button toggles the button label between ''''All'''' and ''''Usable'''' (Fig. 3). This button works in tandem with the active character sheet to display items usable by the active character. Figure 4 shows a dwarf [[Warrior|warrior]] in the party clipboard with the usability toggle set to ''''Usable''''. The items in the inventory show only those that the warrior can equip, taking into consideration [[Power Tokens|power token]] limits. <br /> The shop usability button toggle works slightly differently than for the inventory (Fig. 5). While in shops, the button toggles from ''''All'''' to ''''Usable'''' to ''''New'''' and back to ''''All''''. ''''New'''' shows all items in the shop that are not currently present in the party inventory.
| [[File:Usable_toggle.jpg|thumb|200px|Fig. 3: The usability toggle button]]
| [[File:Usable_toggle_shop.jpg|thumb|200px|Fig. 5: The usability toggle in shop]]
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| colspan="2" valign="center" align="center"| [[File:usable_inv.jpg|thumb|800px|Fig. 4: Showing usable items for the dwarf warrior]]
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==Using the text search==

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| STYLE="vertical-align: center; text-align:justify;" align="left" |On the right of the usability toggle button is the text search entry field (Fig. 6). Users can enter text to display all items fulfilling the search criteria. Unknown to most users, the text search uses Flash AS3 search function which will accept both basic strings and regular expressions. In other words, the text search is a powerful feature that accepts inputs other than basic text. The below list documents search criteria that the text field accepts. 
| [[File:text_search.jpg|thumb|200px|Fig. 6: The text search field]]
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{| align="left" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"  |
|width="11%"| <span style="color: orange">Using logical OR &#124; to find items with multiple keywords.</span>
|width="11%"| ''Eg: wellspring&#124;accelerate returns all items with [[Cards/Unholy Wellspring|Unholy Wellspring]] and [[Cards/Accelerated Thought|Accelerated Thought]]''
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|<span style="color: orange">Chain multiple "&#124;" to find more items.</span>
|''Eg: wellspring&#124;accelerate&#124;unholy power&#124;demonic feedback''
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|<span style="color: orange">Find all items with step cards and cards with range 2.</span>
|''Eg: step&#124;range: 2''
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|<span style="color: orange">Find all items with cards bearing damage between 1 and 9.</span>
|''Eg: damage: [1-9]''
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|<span style="color: orange">Find all items with cards having damage of at least 11 up to 99.</span>
|''Eg: damage: (1[1-9]&#124;[2-9][0-9])''
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|<span style="color: orange">Find all items with cards having any damage greater than 5.</span>
|''Eg: damage: ([5-9]&#124;[1-9]\d)''
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|<span style="color: orange">Square brackets match anything inside them.</span>
|''Eg: draws [a2]" returns all items with [[Cards/Inspiration|Inspiration]] and [[Cards/Demonic Feedback|Demonic Feedback]]''
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|<span style="color: orange">Find all items with lifesteal cards.</span>
|''Eg: each point''
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| colspan='2'|Known limitation: You can't search for "long range abilities that do damage". You can do range, or damage, but not both at once.
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==Using toggle buttons==





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You can probably figure how to tweak this to do what you want. "\d" is the same as [0-9]

==Credits==
https://forums.cardhunter.com/threads/the-text-search-is-amazing-you-need-to-tell-people-how-to-use-it.1971/

[[User:Phaselock|Phaselock]]: Author of this guide (1st draft).
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