Search fix request

bsobel

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Dec 9, 2001
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Zuni,

Any chance you can fix the query your doing for the search to allow the " character? (or tell me a secret to make it work?). I was trying to search the for/sale forum for 21" monitors. When searching for 21" the search comes back empty, searching for just 21 returns the right results along with LOTS of additonal things (XP2100+, PC2100, Price Drop 4/21, etc). I look for monitor deals often enough that I've ran into this a couple of times, these time I thought I'd take the time to document it incase you never noticed.

Thanks,
Bill

p.s. Can we please have a security forum ;)

 

bsobel

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err bump so this doesn't age out before Zuni sees it...
Bill
 

Jason Clark

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Nope, its an illegal character in almost any full text system. Full text systems are based on words. Anything under 4 characters is ignored, numbers, to, the,he, she. It's phrase based.

Hope that helps