what do they mean word charaters??

[Bootlegger]

  What is meant when you are told that each word must be at least two characters long??  Thanks

[Dave Hull]

What is the context of this question?

If it is about computers, it would appear to mean that your device has to have sufficient computing power to process two ASCII characters simultaneously. (Of 127 choices of characters; and, of 8 bits per character.) This is really anemic, so the question does not make a lot of sense yet.

Or it could mean that you are working on a very short crossword puzzle....

Dave

[Tim Wescott]

If computers are involved, then the 'character' in question is one letter/punctuation/whatever.  They probably mean "visible character", because strictly speaking a space is a character, too.  So "is" is a 2-character word, "I-b-c" is a five-character word (depending on whether they know what they're talking about", but "I" is a one-character word.

[James Holford]

idk

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[BillLee]

I suspect it's the response from a search of an indexed site, and the indexing doesn't keep words shorter than what they said. Usually that's "words have to be longer than three" since the indexing doesn't want to be troubled with all of the occurrences of "the" and similar. But who knows what evil lurks in the minds of search programmers! 

[Bootlegger]

  Guy's I tried to put the name of O S engine in the subject line and the stunt hanger said that each word had to have two characters in it.
  I am not sure what they want..

[Steve Helmick]

Or "O.S. Engines IDK".    Steve

[Brett Buck]

  Guy's I tried to put the name of O S engine in the subject line and the stunt hanger said that each word had to have two characters in it.
  I am not sure what they want..

 " O S " is two single characters. OS is a two-character word. O S will not work. OS will work.

  A character, in this context, is generated when you press a key on the keyboard.

      Brett

[BillLee]

" O S " is two single characters. OS is a two-character word. O S will not work. OS will work.

  A character, in this context, is generated when you press a key on the keyboard.

      Brett

Other than the space bar, Brett?

[Ken Culbertson]

Now I understand why the rule book has a drawing for level flight.

Being serious - let me shed light on how a search works since this is what I do to pay for my toy airplanes.

There are three basic logic's that are used in a search as simple as ours -  "And", "Or" and "Phrase". 

"And" means that all of the words in the search must appear somewhere in the document.
"Or" means any of the words in the search must appear and
"Phrase" means that the exact phrase in quotes must appear.

I can't say for sure but it appears our search only supports "And" and "Phrase".  You can use single characters in a "Phrase" like "I am a PAMPA member" but think of the list you would get if you used them in an "And" search!  I am supersized that they allow 2 characters outside quotes.

Hope this helps.

Ken

One more thing - the string you are looking for does not have to be a word, it can be part of a word.  If you just searched for "os" for example, every word in the forum that has "os" it will show.  Boss, Gloss, Oscar, posterior - you get the drift.

[Tim Wescott]

  Guy's I tried to put the name of O S engine in the subject line and the stunt hanger said that each word had to have two characters in it.
  I am not sure what they want..

It wanted OS engine, without the space between the O and the S.

If you just search on OS, or OS engine, you'll get a search that returns about 1/4 of the threads on the forum.  I find it better to use search strings that narrow it down a bit, like 46 LA, or 40 FSR/FP.

[M Spencer]

Try ' Shigeo Ogawa  ' .