It does. Give it a try and it will find this message.

>But that won't find posts with "error #12" in it. That's one one the reason why I asked long ago that this restriction (3 characters minimum) be removed for the search.

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>>I need to run a search on "error 12" but the search engine won't accept anything under 3 chars, thus the "12" part of my search (which happens to be the most important part) gets rejected.
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>>Change the search type to "exact phrase"