wiki.search on page title

[gouwzee]

On many of my wiki pages I have a div block with "related info" Often I use the following:

{{ wiki.search{query: page.title, max: "10"} }}

This works really nice, but it falters when I have a compound title, such as "James Brown"
I want it to search for James Brown exactly, not just the pages with James OR Brown. So I devised the following script, but it doesn't seen to work:

{{ wiki.search{query: "'"..page.title.."'", max: "10"} }}

Should I use escape characters or something? The syntax is correct, but the search still results in James OR Brown..

[gouwzee]

Okay, I experimented some using escape characters and found the solution myself

{{ wiki.search{query: "\""..page.title.."\"", max: "10"} }}

Works nice!

[SteveB]

Similarly, you could also do:

{{ wiki.search{query: '"'..page.title..'"', max: "10"} }}

If you run MindTouch 2009 or later, you should also use string.searchescape to escape special characters from the search.

{{ wiki.search{query: '"' .. string.searchescape(page.title) .. '"', max: "10"} }}