Handling Hyphenated Terms in Search Queries
TLDR A asked about search support for hyphenated terms. Jason advised to add hyphen in the token separators config to index them as two words.
Feb 05, 2022 (19 months ago)
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05:38 PMJason
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05:40 PMA
05:42 PMJason
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