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Keyman
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11 Mar 2012, 7:05 am

If I click the "Find all posts by one-A-N" on one-A-N. I get the "No topics or posts met your search criteria".

I think the "-" characters messes up the pattern matching algorithm. But it's just a guess. Underscores "_" seems to be handled correctly.



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11 Mar 2012, 7:20 am

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11 Mar 2012, 7:29 am

Keyman wrote:
If I click the "Find all posts by one-A-N" on one-A-N. I get the "No topics or posts met your search criteria".
No cigar, I'm afraid - that's an old one. :wink:

You're correct in that the bug mis-handles hyphenated characters and places them after the URL's ".html", so they need to be moved immediately before that and the hyphens replaced by underscores.
Just edit the URL directly in the browser's address bar.

The incorrectly generated URL:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/forumssearch ... e.html-A-N
should be changed to:
http://www.wrongplanet.net/forumssearch ... e_A_N.html


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