Searching "C++" in Typesense Results in C# Instead
TLDR Gines had issues with searching "C++" in Typesense. Kishore Nallan suggested enabling indexing of symbols during collection creation to resolve the issue.
Nov 11, 2022 (10 months ago)
Gines
12:12 PMHow can I manage to search "C++" in typesense? it is giving me C# results instead of c++, I tried writing "C plus plus" as well.
I am using typesense 0.24.0rcn31 and my search is made with instantsearch and php. Thank you!
Kishore Nallan
12:14 PM{
"name": "docs",
"fields": [
{"name": "title", "type": "string"}
],
"symbols_to_index":["+"]
}
Kishore Nallan
12:15 PM+
and ensure that C++
is found.Typesense
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