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Bug 182540 - forum search can't handle literals with punctuation
Summary: forum search can't handle literals with punctuation
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Websites
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Forums (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Forum Moderators
URL: https://forums.gentoo.org/
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-06-19 05:52 UTC by Richard Benjamin Voigt
Modified: 2017-05-30 08:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Description Richard Benjamin Voigt 2007-06-19 05:52:59 UTC
example:

I want to find out about what people have written about portage's ROOT variable.

I search for "ROOT=".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
search for "ROOT=" with the quotes

Actual Results:  
search returns hits for "root", not "ROOT=", such as "alsa runs as root but not for normal users"

Expected Results:  
Posts containing the exact sequence of characters "ROOT=", because I typed it as a quoted phrase.

People might also want to search for 'grep "/dev"', and so forth.  It's probably ok to first use the index for the base word without punctuation, as the search currently does, but the engine should then cull the results using a full unindexed search for the literal phrase given.