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<font face="FreeSerif">I don't know why I didn't think to try this
earlier, but I got the needed effect back using regex search for
"..+", i.e. at least 2 characters.<br>
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I would still like to know why "." no longer works, why search
answers with every verse. It appears that Sword thinks there's at
least 1 character in every verse, even when nothing has been put
in any but a bare few.</font><br>
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