Thread:Help talk:CirrusSearch/"Really" exact matches/reply (8)

Thanks for your attention to the problem! :–)

Regarding "super exact" matches, I think that the word "exact" has a well-defined meaning, ;–) and thus ignoring all non-word characters is not really "exact". Therefore I would at least suggest to document the current behavior for "Quotes and exact matches" (such that it matches given words in given order, or what it really does?). But also I believe that truly exact matches are sometimes needed. While they can be emulated by using a combination of a quoted string and a "duplicate" regexp, that route is cumbersome and works for "insource:" only. Can you add a modifier (for example, an exclamation mark or an equal sign: <<"well-liked"!>> or <<"well-liked"=>>) to request really exact matches (since the engine already has a "~" modifier for "less exact")?