Options: Method for Matching Placed Caches

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Method for Matching Owned and Found Caches (Tools=>Options=>General)

Use these radio buttons to define the way of identifying you as the person who owns the cache. This same method is used when interrogating logs to adjust your found count and other information.

You have three options:

Exact Match: GSAK compares the "Geocaching name" to what you enter here. If the two match exactly, then GSAK recognises this as a placed cache. (Case is not significant!)

Allow wild card match: Case is not significant; GSAK applies wild card matching. Wild cards supported are as follows:

* matches any substring (including null)
? matches any single character
# matches any numeric character (0..9)
@ matches any alphabetic character (A..Z, a..z)
$ matches any alphanumeric character
~ matches any non-alphanumeric, non-space character

Owner ID#: When you create your user ID and password at www.geocaching.com you are allocated a unique Owner ID (also known as Member ID). This number is shown on your profile here (Note: you will need to log into your Geocaching.com account to see your "Member ID"). The easiest way update GSAK with your ID is to take the option "Geocaching.com access=>Update user information" as per the screen shot below:

GSAK also allows for multiple owner ID's. If you want GSAK to recognize more than one ID then separate them with a ; (semi colon) for example 12345;12346

RegEx - Use a regular expression to match the name of person.