191241 - can't search bugs using a negative integer as a keyword in quicksearch

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Marc Bejarano]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030127
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030127

when entering a new bug for any product at bugzilla.mozilla.org, Step 1 is
"search for your bug".  one can enter text like "error 660099" and get a hit for
bug 98107, but entering "error -8173" does not bring up bug 188856.  in fact,
the negative number seems to have the opposite effect desired.  searching using
negative numbers on the standard query page (
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi ) seems to work fine.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

QuickSearch works like Google.  Putting a minus (-) in front of something means
you want bugs that don't contain that.

Interestingly enough, just like Google, if I quote the number, the search works.

I entered this:
error "-8173"
into QuickSearch and it did find bug 188856

Comment 2

[Marc Bejarano]

neat...  now i know :)

thanx!