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RE: [grubstreet] Search anomoly

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From: Ivor Williams
Subject: RE: [grubstreet] Search anomoly
Date: 12:50 on 08 Jan 2003

On Wednesday, January 08, 2003 12:26 PM, Kate L Pugh [SMTP:kake@xxxxx.xx] 
wrote:
> On Wed 08 Jan 2003, Ivor Williams <iwilliams@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> > Using the Usemod site search facility to search on "docklands" finds
> > the page on "The Painted Cows". I cannot see for the life of me why.
> >
> > Anybody care to shed light on the matter.
>
> It's in the URL of the photo -
>   <img src="http://husk.org/pics/imgs/walks/wander/docklands_2002-07-
>   22/recycle_cow_horny_devil.jpg">
>

Interesting... My search did not find this because it does not match on partial 
words. An underscore is a word constituent character (\w), hence it thinks it's 
part of a longer 'word'.

'docklands*' finds "The Painted Cows".

Ivor.


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[grubstreet] Search anomoly Ivor Williams 12:12 on 08 Jan 2003
Anybody care to shed light on the matter.
- Re: [grubstreet] Search anomoly Kate L Pugh 12:25 on 08 Jan 2003
  It's in the URL of the photo -
- RE: [grubstreet] Search anomoly Ivor Williams 12:50 on 08 Jan 2003
  wrote:
- Re: [grubstreet] Search anomoly Earle Martin 17:30 on 12 Jan 2003
  It's now live. Apologies for the delay.