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dgbeecher
Dedicated Contributor
4 years ago

Trouble searching for credit card / bank account numbers

If I search for the first four digits of a credit card number, matches show up in the dropdown search list, and in the "Show All Matching Items" list when I hit CMD-Enter. Great! But if I search ...
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volts
Super Contributor
4 years ago

Re: the second item:

  • But if I search for the last four digits of a credit card number, matches show up only in the dropdown search list, but not in the "Show All Matching Items" list when I hit CMD-Enter. Weird!

This behavior changes depending on what's stored in the number field.

If it's formatted as 1234 5678 1111 9999, with spaces, it WILL appear when you CMD_Enter.
If it's formatted as 1234567811119999, with no spaces, it WON'T.

AFAICT the current search only matches at delimiter boundaries. This is also why you can't search for the last digits of a bank account number.

Lack of substring search is bad enough for Title and URL. It's crippling for other fields.