Exact match on entire string

[PetesBreenCoding]

This is more of a question than an issue. Is it possible to search by an exact match of the whole field value?

e.g. if I had something like this:
.Search("Brand=Skoda&Description=Test")

How can I word the Brand=Skoda part to make it match exactly the entire string in the Brand field, rather than just contained within it?

[mikegoatly]

That's a great question - I don't think there's an easy way to do that at the moment.

The only hack that springs to mind is to add some fake markers to the field's text, e.g. ¬¬ Skoda ¬¬ that way you can use the a sequential text query, adding the markers to either end ("¬¬ Skoda ¬¬") which will enforce that the text matches the whole string.

To properly handle this in the query language we'd need some additional syntax to match the start and end of a string (similar to the ^ and $ you can use in a regex?). We store token indexes in the index, so knowing the start will be easy; it would be token index 0, but we'd need to store some additional metadata in the index because there won't be an obvious way to identify whether a current match is the last parsed token.

[PetesBreenCoding]

Thanks Mike, I will work with the begin/end tags workaround for now. Adding query syntax would make sense, unfortunately the ^ is already used for score boost. I guess score boost could be changed to something else (breaking change!).