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[MillerTime247]

When I go to do a search and type in a 3 character term it doesn't let me perform the search.

Example:

"Koho 570 goal stick" is not allowed because 570 is less than 4 characters.

Is there any way that this can be changed? If not is there some way I can "cheat" and get around it?

[Squealagig]

I may be wrong here but I beleive if you put an asterix behind the 3 letter word it will work eg. koho 570* stick

[bedris]

http://64.119.160.130/board/showthre...threadid=8862&

This has been covered. You should have SEARCHED for it!

[Squealagig]

Except that thread didn't have a solution so in fact this thread was usefull as the other one just stated a problem.

[bedris]

No, he just have just bumped up the old thread! This way the BB just gets cluttered.

So if a person searches for this exact same topic, he'll get two threads, only one of which has answer. Had MillerT bumped up the old thread, the answer-seaker would find one thread with the answer.

Of course, it's no big deal, just explaining the logic behind my statement.

[TartanBill]

Quotint strings doesn't seem to help. Is there any way to force the search to a phrase? I suppose using * instead of spaces might work.

[MillerTime247]

Searching about searching???

Didn't even think about doing that.

[Timberwoof]

The correct fix would be for the BBS programmers to make a list of stop-words that by default don't get indexed or used in searches. It's more accurate and effective than the arbitrary three-letter limit. There are plenty of three-letter words that are significant in searches. (Like "Cat.") I know about this stuff because I once worked on a text indexing and retrieval software application.