Re: Re: Looking for '0' (Looking for Monks) (wh00t!)

This post assumes that there is no PerlMonk by the name of spearmint

I have a friend, who I have not heard from for a long time. He goes by the handle spearmint on the internet. He is a keen Perl coder. I therefore thought to try and look him up on PerlMonks.

The only place I could see to search on Monk names was the very optional field box that you mention in SuperSearch:

(*) Match -or- (*) Exclude authors <INPUT BOX>

When I type in spearmint in that field and then press the Submit button, the first line returned (excluding the usual headers) is:

User "0" does not exist.

Which, strictly speaking is not what I asked for. I was expecting:

User "spearmint" does not exist.

So I replaced spearmint with 0 (just to be pedantic) and pressed the Submit button again. This returns:

Found 50 nodes roughly between 1999-10-04 and 2000-10-09 (searched 15.13% of DB).

written by any of NodeReaper

And so, just being as I am, I sought various other options, one of which is to replace the now 0 with "0", which returns:

User "0" does not exist.

And that cannot be argued with.

Hope this is clear enough.

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Re^3: Looking for '0' (Looking for Monks) (fixed) by tye (Sage) on Feb 21, 2003 at 20:25 UTC
Hmm, I (mistakenly) thought I had tried those things and not gotten those reponses. I see your point now. You found two bugs, one rather minor and one major. They've both been fixed now. Thanks much. - tye	[reply]
Re^4: Looking for '0' (Looking for Monks) (fast) by graq (Curate) on Feb 22, 2003 at 06:33 UTC
SuperSearch seems to be working quicker, for all searches, than it ever has before. Nice one! <a href="http://www.graq.co.uk">Graq</a>	[reply]
Re2: Looking for '0' (Looking for Monks) (wh00t!) by blakem (Monsignor) on Feb 22, 2003 at 06:44 UTC
While not obvious, it is possible to find all monks with 'mint' in their usernames. Every monk has a homenode. Homenodes are of type 'user' and have a title of $monkname. Therefore, if you super search on "Match titles containing: mint" and "Search only section: Users", you should get what you want: Pmint adominte stmintz MintyFresh Figmint supermint mint1981 -Blake	[reply]