wp-includes/class-wp-user-query.php:943Used internally to generate an SQL string for searching across multiple columns.
$searchstring$columnsstring[]$wildbooloptionalfalsestring protected function get_search_sql( $search, $columns, $wild = false ) { global $wpdb; $searches = array(); $leading_wild = ( 'leading' === $wild || 'both' === $wild ) ? '%' : ''; $trailing_wild = ( 'trailing' === $wild || 'both' === $wild ) ? '%' : ''; $like = $leading_wild . $wpdb->esc_like( $search ) . $trailing_wild; foreach ( $columns as $column ) { if ( 'ID' === $column ) { $searches[] = $wpdb->prepare( "$column = %s", $search ); } else { $searches[] = $wpdb->prepare( "$column LIKE %s", $like ); } } return ' AND (' . implode( ' OR ', $searches ) . ')'; }Introduced in 3.1.0. Unchanged from 6.7.7 through 7.1.0.
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src/wp-includes/class-wp-user-query.php, and regenerated for each WordPress release so it tracks the code rather than a snapshot of it.