Typesense Infix Search for Partial Word Matching
TLDR Eric needed help with Typesense infix search for partial word matching. Kishore Nallan advised to enable it through infix: true in the collection schema.
Mar 22, 2023 (6 months ago)
Eric
08:12 AMI am a newbie on Typesense and I need help to search for a part of a word
in one of my collection I have a field that contains several times the word product
if I search by prod* the results are well found
if I search by rodu no result
how to search as a SQL LIKE %ordu% query
Thanks for your help
Kishore Nallan
08:52 AM
Typesense
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