elm.web.utilities.clean_search_query

clean_search_query(query)

Check if the first character is a digit and remove it if so.

Some search tools (e.g., Google) will fail to return results if the query has a leading digit: 1. “LangCh…”

This function will take all the text after the first double quote (”) if a digit is detected at the beginning of the string.

Parameters:

query (str) – Input query that may or may not contain a leading digit.

Returns:

str – Cleaned query.