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Processing Filter String Value in Typesense

TLDR Philipe asked about filter string processing in Typesense. Kishore Nallan explained the removal of special characters during text indexing.

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Dec 14, 2021 (23 months ago)
Philipe
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Philipe
01:32 PM
Is this the intended behaviour?
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
01:35 PM
The filter string value is processed to drop the underscore character. Text indexed in Typesense is normalised and special chars are removed. If you want to index them verbatim use the symbols_to_index configuration during collection schema creation.
Philipe
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Philipe
01:37 PM
thanks, was just curious

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