Issues with dash in search term

Jan Krohn
Jan Krohn Member Posts: 3,720 ✭✭✭
edited November 21 in English Forum

Example:

Searching for "ben-hur" (with dash) only yields 4 results (all of which have a dash). However, searching for "ben hur" (without dash, incorrect) yields plenty of results, which all seem to have a dash too (I've not gone through all of them though, of course).

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  • Ed Ball (Logos)
    Ed Ball (Logos) Member, Logos Employee Posts: 119

    Thanks for the report! When double quotes aren't strictly needed, we match case. We will reconsider whether double-quoted hyphenated words should match case.

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,121
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1234365#Comment_1234365

    A perfect example of why FL should provide detailed documentation of the search. There are many, many quirks in its processing that cause results to not be what is expected.

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  • Jan Krohn
    Jan Krohn Member Posts: 3,720 ✭✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1234372#Comment_1234372

    I always thought that double quotes mean exact search term (like with Google), and case sensitivity could be toggled with the button in the top bar.

    I wonder how many searh hits I've missed so far. I almost always use quotes to get the most exact results...

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  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,677
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1234375#Comment_1234375

    I always thought that double quotes mean exact search term (like with Google), and case sensitivity could be toggled with the button in the top bar.

    "People of Israel" would correspond to that description if  your "exact" means that it won't match "Peoples of Israel" whilst it could match "people of Israel"  depending on [match case].  However "People-of-Israel" won't match "people of Israel" as the hyphenated words are case sensitive.

    People-of-Israel is an alternative to "People of Israel" but it will match "Peoples of Israel" depending on [match all forms].

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  • Roger Pitot
    Roger Pitot Member Posts: 190 ✭✭

    I've just searched for Ben-hur no quotes and got 227 results, all of which seem correct!

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,677
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1234558#Comment_1234558

    I've just searched for Ben-hur no quotes and got 227 results, all of which seem correct!

    If you "ben hur" and "Ben hur" and "Ben Hur" or any variation with hyphens then it is correct (but it is case sensitive, so you might only get "Ben hur".

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