Punctuation in the search function

I’m sure this has been adressed, but I’ll be damned if I can find where.

Will the search function find, say someone with “wordone.wordtwo” as a sn?

The most likely answer to any question relating to the search engine is “probably not”. There’s some characters that the engine likes, and some that it doesn’t. All that’s really known about those two categories, though, is that it likes all 26 letters and 10 digits. I don’t know whether it would like periods or not, and I can’t think of any punctuated names offhand to test it on. In any event, provided that either word1 or word2 contains at least three “good” characters in a row, you should be able to use a “match partial”.

Well, I think that answers my question as well as it can be…

Thankee kindly.