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by Svip 1018 days ago
Was someone trying to be funny, to change a "notepad" search for "notepad++", forgetting that + has a specific meaning in regex? Same error occurs with a search for "notepad++", though, but not "notepad+", funnily enough.
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wouldn't this be worse for not having the user provided search query sanitized for special characters?
My assumption is wrong. As others have noted, it's clearly parsing the title of the first result wrong. Edit: It's the parsing of the title of the infobox.