Handling Infix Search in Typesense
TLDR Lalit asked about handling infix search in Typesense. Dima suggested adding '-' to token separators. Lalit anticipated more special cases. Kishore Nallan argued infix search might be CPU intensive and might be better for handling initial typos.
Aug 15, 2023 (1 month ago)
Lalit
01:34 PMi have item named T-shirt
i searched with keyword shirt
it gives me no result
infix: 'always',
infinix does the work just wanted toa sk that if this is the right approach
Dima
01:35 PM- to token_separatorshttps://typesense.org/docs/0.24.1/api/collections.html#schema-parameters
> For e.g. you can add
- (hyphen) to this list to make a word like non-stick to be split on hyphen and indexed as two separate words.Lalit
01:36 PM
Kishore Nallan
02:28 PM
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