From ee9390ee34ab97a8ca4822d552c38ac84c1ef69e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Julian Lam <julian@designcreateplay.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 16:28:31 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fixed #2949

---
 public/src/modules/search.js | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/public/src/modules/search.js b/public/src/modules/search.js
index 957032c47f..81b98e9ab3 100644
--- a/public/src/modules/search.js
+++ b/public/src/modules/search.js
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ define('search', ['navigator', 'translator'], function(nav, translator) {
 		var term = data.term;
 
 		// Detect if a tid was specified
-		var topicSearch = term.match(/in:topic-([\d]+)/);
+		var topicSearch = term.match(/^in:topic-([\d]+) /);
 
 		if (!topicSearch) {
 			term = term.replace(/^[ ?#]*/, '');
@@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ define('search', ['navigator', 'translator'], function(nav, translator) {
 			var cleanedTerm = term.replace(topicSearch[0], ''),
 				tid = topicSearch[1];
 
-			Search.queryTopic(tid, cleanedTerm, callback);
+			if (cleanedTerm.length > 0) {
+				Search.queryTopic(tid, cleanedTerm, callback);
+			}
 		}
 	};