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16 September 2008, 11:29
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Cat lover
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Italy
Age: 54
Posts: 804
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"Search" function on EAB forum.
I don't understand how the "search" function, available in our EAB forum, works. It seems to have problem to detect words with the full stop "." symbol inside.
It's impossible to find word like "3.9" and "2.05", but it works with words like "37.350"... but how does it work? |
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16 September 2008, 11:53
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: .
Age: 48
Posts: 5,562
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i think that's because shorter words are not searched
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16 September 2008, 11:54
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Workbitch 1.3
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Age: 46
Posts: 2,084
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I believe 4 characters and less are ignored by the search as Marco said.
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16 September 2008, 11:57
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Lesser Talent
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: UK
Age: 42
Posts: 7,957
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Not true. Just try searching for 'dog' or something
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16 September 2008, 13:16
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: .
Age: 48
Posts: 5,562
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then the full stop divides the quote in two short words: 2 letters words are not searched in fact
[edit] or maybe not: "37.350" comes up with findings where all the "37.350" is highlighted, not just the "350" while if you search for "37.35" there's no results, but the search function don't tell that there are short terms... |
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16 September 2008, 15:50
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Pirate
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Denmark
Posts: 3,395
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sometimes it's easier to use google for searching within EAB
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19 September 2008, 18:45
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. . Mouse . .
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Nowhere
Age: 55
Posts: 1,792
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Quote:
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19 September 2008, 23:49
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Administrator
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Paris / France
Age: 45
Posts: 3,084
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The current full text search engine minimal word limit is 3.
I may decrease is to 2 when I will upgrade our server to have better search result. |
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18 October 2008, 15:44
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 446
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*10* works for two or three characters *chr$*
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