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GRO showing zero results for EVERYTHING [SOLVED]
« on: Tuesday 16 January 24 10:16 GMT (UK) »
Anyone else getting this?

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Re: GRO showing zero results for EVERYTHING
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 16 January 24 10:22 GMT (UK) »
working fine for me

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Re: GRO showing zero results for EVERYTHING
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 16 January 24 10:28 GMT (UK) »

...and working also for me too.

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Re: GRO showing zero results for EVERYTHING
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 16 January 24 10:38 GMT (UK) »
Sorry had a space before the surname ::) :o!

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Re: GRO showing zero results for EVERYTHING
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 16 January 24 17:08 GMT (UK) »
I would imagine a lot of people would expect a space before a surname to be treated as non-significant.

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Re: GRO showing zero results for EVERYTHING
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 16 January 24 18:15 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Watson on Tuesday 16 January 24 17:08 GMT (UK)
I would imagine a lot of people would expect a space before a surname to be treated as non-significant.

I worked in IT for more than 45 years.
I never worked on a system that treated leading spaces as non-significant! ;)
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Re: GRO showing zero results for EVERYTHING [SOLVED]
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 16 January 24 19:32 GMT (UK) »
Really?  What significance did it attach to them?

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Re: GRO showing zero results for EVERYTHING
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 16 January 24 20:53 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: KGarrad on Tuesday 16 January 24 18:15 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Watson on Tuesday 16 January 24 17:08 GMT (UK)
I would imagine a lot of people would expect a space before a surname to be treated as non-significant.

I worked in IT for more than 45 years.
I never worked on a system that treated leading spaces as non-significant! ;)

Agreed

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Re: GRO showing zero results for EVERYTHING [SOLVED]
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 16 January 24 22:15 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Watson on Tuesday 16 January 24 19:32 GMT (UK)
Really?  What significance did it attach to them?

In text fields, a space is a character.

<sp> is the usual abbreviation for a space.
So "<sp>Abc" is not the same as "Abc" or "<sp><sp>Abc".
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