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    Three Letter Word Seach

    The seach function here has a minimum word length of three characters.

    That dosen't mean you can't search three letter words like 'cam', 'HMF', 'FMF' etc...

    All you have to do is add an asterisk (*) to the beginning or the end of the three letter word.

    cam* or *cam
    *HMF or HMF*
    etc...


    Adding the asterisk to either end may result in different results meaning *cam may have different results that cam*. Try them both for which ever three letter word you're trying to search to get the most results.
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    Not complaining or anything, but what is the technical reason we can't search for 3 letter words?

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    Originally posted by Scro
    Not complaining or anything, but what is the technical reason we can't search for 3 letter words?
    I belive it has to do with the forum software. Which is something i'm not envolved with.
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    Re: Three Letter Word Seach

    Originally posted by JOEX
    The seach function here has a minimum word length of three characters.

    That dosen't mean you can't search three letter words like 'cam', 'HMF', 'FMF' etc...

    All you have to do is add an asterisk (*) to the beginning or the end of the three letter word.

    cam* or *cam
    *HMF or HMF*
    etc...


    Adding the asterisk to either end may result in different results meaning *cam may have different results that cam*. Try them both for which ever three letter word you're trying to search to get the most results.
    I've seen this advice given as a workaround, but the fact is that an asterisk (*) means the same as "1 or more of any character", not "0 or more". So for instance, using HRC* as a search term will not turn up this post, but will turn up posts containing "HRC," "HRC." "HRC/FMF" etc. This is quite misleading and severely limits search results for 3-letter terms for which there's no other way to search.
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    Re: Re: Three Letter Word Seach

    Originally posted by olimj
    I've seen this advice given as a workaround, but the fact is that an asterisk (*) means the same as "1 or more of any character", not "0 or more". So for instance, using HRC* as a search term will not turn up this post, but will turn up posts containing "HRC," "HRC." "HRC/FMF" etc. This is quite misleading and severely limits search results for 3-letter terms for which there's no other way to search.
    It may not be perfect but this is what we have to work with. If there's a better way i'm sure everyone would like to know

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    NOTE: you can search for 2 letters such as DG but you need a star before and after the word

    EXAMPLE: *DG*
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    Mods do you think you could put this as a sticky in all of the different topics? People forget to look here and they don't know how to search 3 letter search term and they end up asking the same question as ten different people.
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    Everytime I do this my internet explorer freezes and it comes up error. Whether i put it at the begining or the end. Not my computer I dont think. I have a new HP laptop with Vista pro and not sure what internet explorer but its definitly newer.

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