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Description
Searching messages and entering a non-alphanumeric character as the first character caused an crash & restart. This was due to the search being performed after each character entered, and any illegal character entered as the 1st character is replaced with a space - so in effect we are searching on the string " " which was causing the error.
Guards have been put in place to prevent search queries on strings of " " which eliminates the error.
Tested by entering a variety of non-alphanumeric characters as first search letter of message search both in regular user-to-user comms & in a group- all fine now.
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Fixes #1234syntaxDescription
Searching messages and entering a non-alphanumeric character as the first character caused an crash & restart. This was due to the search being performed after each character entered, and any illegal character entered as the 1st character is replaced with a space - so in effect we are searching on the string
" "which was causing the error.Guards have been put in place to prevent search queries on strings of
" "which eliminates the error.Tested by entering a variety of non-alphanumeric characters as first search letter of message search both in regular user-to-user comms & in a group- all fine now.