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Old 05-09-2022, 01:43 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by mbovenka View Post
I searched for an author with the surname 'Tonelli' with the search 'authors:tonelli'. I'm aware that this is a substring search, so authors with the surname 'Antonelli' popping up was expected behavior.

What did surprise me, was 'Bret Easton Ellis' as a match. Yes, if you totally ignore whitespace and the difference between first names and surnames it's a match: Bret Easton Ellis.

For me, that breaks the Principle of Least Surprise
It's likely you have been bitten by the removal of punctuation from searches introduced in 5.42.
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