[Logician]

Originally posted by sparky2
NON [A-z][0-9] CHARS ARE CLEARLY NOT BEING STRIPPED

You're missing the point that the script is not coded to work in English language only. If you strip posts with regex's pattern modifiers (like [A-z][0-9] as you mentioned), the searching function might be useless for many non-english boards.

Besides its not always words someone might want to search in the board. Eg. In this board I would like to make a search for keyword "$bbuserinfo[usergroupid]". If you strip $ sign, I wouldnt find any results. Same applies to many other chars if board subject might be "maths" (+=-/.,), "programming" ($()[]{}&#;'!"), "finance" ($?%) etc. So IMO vb's existing structure is logical.

I didnt check it out but if * is not stripped either, you are right about this char though. It can never be matched as it's the wildcard char but I would say this is not an very important issue anyway, dont you think?