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Question about Forum's Search

Switch Blayde 🚫

I wanted to find the thread on UTF-8. Well, I forgot what UTF-8 was called so I was looking for that so I did a search on "8" (without the quotes). The SOL search didn't find anything. Then I searched on "-8" and it still didn't find anything. Once I found "UTF-8" using Google, I searched on "utf-8" in the forum and SOL found it. I then tried searching on "f-8" and it still didn't find it.

Does the Forum Search only work with whole words?

Also, when I got the "Didn't find…" message, there was no place to enter a new search criteria. I had to hit the back button or the "forum" link and start over.

Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

@Switch Blayde

The forum search is like google search. It finds whole words that are longer than 2 characters.

Replies:   Jim S
Jim S 🚫

@Lazeez Jiddan (Webmaster)

I started playing around with the character string and found that the search algorithm searched for only the UTF portion, ignoring the -8 completely. Tested it trying to find UTF-16. Same number of posts returned (78) and only the UTF highlighted in each (stopping at the -).

So I started playing around with numbers. Searched for 167 and got six hits. I saw that the 167 was part of the string 5.167 in a couple and tried searching for that string. It returned the same six posts, highlighting only the 167. Not exactly what I was expecting.

Is there a help file around that can help me search (pardon the unintentional pun) for what is used and what isn't?

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