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.

<a href="http://www.graq.co.uk">Graq</a>

In reply to Re: Re: Looking for '0' (Looking for Monks) (wh00t!) by graq
in thread Looking for '0' (Looking for Monks) by graq

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