search for hyphenated string

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search for hyphenated string

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I saved a page which I believe is/was from Eileen's Lounge:-
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The date stamp suggests that I was saving web pages related to Win20 issues for future reading - which reading I am doing now.

I have tried searching for

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"uh-oh" without quotes, 
"uh-oh" with quotes, 
uh* oh*
all to no avail.
I suppose that after this post has been indexed, it should be found on a search for the string "uh-oh", regardless of my initial target, but how can I tell the search function to match the exact string of five characters.

(I suspect that the answer will be "use Google Search with a site: parameter)
This is so, and now I know that the original post is here.
I am rapidly losing faith in the Lounge's search facility.

Thanks
Chris
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Re: search for hyphenated string

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So there is no need to reply... :evilgrin:
Best wishes,
Hans

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HansV wrote:
04 Sep 2020, 19:26
So there is no need to reply... :evilgrin:
Grrrrrrr! :cranky:

OK, but really, it seems as if the search engine treats a soft hyphen as a space character so that "uh-oh" is taken as two words of two characters each.

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Chris
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Agreed.
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Hans