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Confirmed.

Currently this year information is not used in ANY of the searches as it is disguarded by the core function FIND.

What happens is the fileName is stripped of its extention and stored in strMovie
This is then passed into the function GetSearchString which removes the (year) and other things and is stored in strSearch. strSearch then has all web illegal chars removed and it is this variable which is passed to the various search engines.

Now what I could do, if people think it is worth it and a lot of people store their movies named like:

\my Movie (2003).avi

(which I am doing more and more now)

is have a look at the GetSearchString function and alter it or add a new function before it which gets the year if present at the end of the file in format (nnnn).xxx and store that the currentmovie.year field before a search has taken place.

i could then create an overload function to IIMDBScriptGrabber.FindFilm in this format

FindFilm (string title, string year, int limit, ArrayList elements)

Then people can choose whether to update the cssripts to use the extra info to refine the search.

I think this sounds like a good idea and should make movie matching more accurate for those of us who add this info to the file name.

<blockquote data-quote="gamejester" data-source="post: 291298" data-attributes="member: 50634">Confirmed.Currently this year information is not used in ANY of the searches as it is disguarded by the core function FIND.What happens is the fileName is stripped of its extention and stored in strMovieThis is then passed into the function GetSearchString which removes the (year) and other things and is stored in strSearch. strSearch then has all web illegal chars removed and it is this variable which is passed to the various search engines.Now what I could do, if people think it is worth it and a lot of people store their movies named like:\my Movie (2003).avi(which I am doing more and more now)is have a look at the GetSearchString function and alter it or add a new function before it which gets the year if present at the end of the file in format (nnnn).xxx and store that the currentmovie.year field before a search has taken place.i could then create an overload function to IIMDBScriptGrabber.FindFilm in this formatFindFilm (string title, string year, int limit, ArrayList elements)Then people can choose whether to update the cssripts to use the extra info to refine the search.I think this sounds like a good idea and should make movie matching more accurate for those of us who add this info to the file name.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="gamejester, post: 291298, member: 50634"] Confirmed. Currently this year information is not used in ANY of the searches as it is disguarded by the core function FIND. What happens is the fileName is stripped of its extention and stored in strMovie This is then passed into the function GetSearchString which removes the (year) and other things and is stored in strSearch. strSearch then has all web illegal chars removed and it is this variable which is passed to the various search engines. Now what I could do, if people think it is worth it and a lot of people store their movies named like: \my Movie (2003).avi (which I am doing more and more now) is have a look at the GetSearchString function and alter it or add a new function before it which gets the year if present at the end of the file in format (nnnn).xxx and store that the currentmovie.year field before a search has taken place. i could then create an overload function to IIMDBScriptGrabber.FindFilm in this format FindFilm (string title, string year, int limit, ArrayList elements) Then people can choose whether to update the cssripts to use the extra info to refine the search. I think this sounds like a good idea and should make movie matching more accurate for those of us who add this info to the file name. [/QUOTE]