Limitations of Typesense Search Functionality
TLDR Luke faced issues with searching specific words in Typesense. Kishore Nallan explained that Typesense supports only prefix search.
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Luke
Luke
02:42 PMFor example a string "thissentence contains words". If I search for contains it works, if I search for sentence it doesn't
Kishore Nallan
Kishore Nallan
02:43 PMTypesense supports only prefix search.
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Kishore Nallan
02:43 PMSo you can search for 'this' and it will work.
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