Searching For Three Letter Words

[roamp]

Any way to search for words such as wok, CIA, USA etc.? Or is four letter words such as @#%! the minimum allowed...well, just wondering.

[Totster]

From the message that shows when a search for a 3 letter word is attempted..

One or all of your search keywords were below 4 characters or you searched for words which are not allowed

Hope that answers your question.

[mark lamai]

one solution is to put the word in quotes with a fourth character being *

which is a wildcard meaning any letter of the alphabet.

then of course use Firefox browser so you can quickly search the pages returned for the word.

[Chang_paarp]

Another way is to enclose the 3 letters in ", ie "CIA" or "USA".

Seems to work.

[roamp]

I've tried all three of these suggestions and none of them work. The error message telling me to use a minimum four letter word doesn't help. I don't know of a four letter word spelling for cat or dog. Searching dog* gets the same error message as searching for "dog".

Remember I am not talking about the Google forum search at the top of the page. That works. I am using the search at the bottom of the page of the Chiang Mai forum because I don't want to search the entire thaivisa forum.

Any other suggestions?

[lannarebirth]

Include a common word in with your search, like "a" or "the" or "my". Something like that.

[mark lamai]

just tried my above suggestion

"dog*"

it worked and returned your post.

"dog" - returns an error.

make sure you use " double quotes.

the * is a standard SQL wildcard that most search progs support.

[roamp]

You're right, it works on the search topic at the bottom of this page. But on the search forum at the bottom of the Chiang Mai Forum page, the same "dog*" search returns the same error message as before. I also tried the same search on the Bangkok Forum and got the same error.

Odd.

just tried my above suggestion

"dog*"

it worked and returned your post.

"dog" - returns an error.

make sure you use " double quotes.

the * is a standard SQL wildcard that most search progs support.