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Three letter searches

AndyT

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The current forum search facility ignores words of three letters or less. This is a bit of a disadvantage if you want to search for words such as oak, ash elm or yew.
Is the restriction still needed, or could it be relaxed please?
 
AndyT said:
The current forum search facility ignores words of three letters or less. This is a bit of a disadvantage if you want to search for words such as oak, ash elm or yew.
Is the restriction still needed, or could it be relaxed please?
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My guess (based on zero data) is that it's a forum limitation rather than a setting. I've generally found the forum search pretty awful anyway so I just use a web search engine & append "site:thewoodhaven2.co.uk"

e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=oak+ash+elm+site:thewoodhaven2.co.uk
 
Actually, I take back what I said: I just checked the (XenForo-based) MIG welding forum & that allows you to search for 3-letter terms (which is handy for things like MIG, TIG, Gas, Arc, MMA etc!)
 
It is and isn't a forum based limitation.

XenForo has a simple setting which is indeed set to 4 characters as the shortest string for searches, but moving it to 3 characters makes no difference because additionally there is an underlying 4 character minimum setting in the MySQL database.

As the server is a virtualised shared server - this is a setting that can't be altered (as it affects all MySQL instances running on the server which is 100s - 1,000s of databases), it is a compromise of cheaper hosting...

there isn't a way therefore to directly update this - two slight fudges are either to take Dr Al's approach, and use a search engine - or you can search on e.g. oak* which won't strictly find the three character instances, but may find some relevant threads...
 
AndyT said:
Ah, thanks, that makes sense.
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😳😳 If you are a member of the Digerati(?) Andy!
I just about got: "piece of code specifying four letters is inaccessible".

I hasten to add I did have a basic (Ha! See what I did there?) grasp of Fortran and C in the mid-to-late seventies, but things ran away from me with "shadow memory" etc in the eighties.
 
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