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RE: Search Issue
July 1, 2015 at 5:26 pm
(June 30, 2015 at 2:07 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I just tried to run a search for 'F-35' and was told that I needed to have at least four characters.  By my count...and I confess to sucking at math...F-35 IS 4 characters.

What's with that?

That is because in most search engines the dash is a symbol used for excluding characters, words or whole phrases. It seems that AF search engine thinks you've entered just F with request to exclude 35 from the results. You can try entering "F 35".
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Search Issue - by Minimalist - June 30, 2015 at 2:07 pm
RE: Search Issue - by NoraBrimstone - June 30, 2015 at 3:08 pm
RE: Search Issue - by vorlon13 - June 30, 2015 at 3:13 pm
RE: Search Issue - by SteelCurtain - June 30, 2015 at 3:21 pm
RE: Search Issue - by Minimalist - June 30, 2015 at 3:23 pm
RE: Search Issue - by vorlon13 - July 1, 2015 at 2:06 am
RE: Search Issue - by SteelCurtain - June 30, 2015 at 3:25 pm
RE: Search Issue - by Minimalist - June 30, 2015 at 3:29 pm
RE: Search Issue - by abaris - July 1, 2015 at 5:14 am
RE: Search Issue - by SteelCurtain - July 1, 2015 at 1:58 pm
RE: Search Issue - by rado84 - July 1, 2015 at 5:26 pm

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