Filtering by String Exclusion in Typesense
TLDR Jainil asked how to filter queries excluding certain words in Typesense. Jason clarified Typesense doesn't support partial word excludes and advised creating a GitHub issue for this feature request.
Jun 05, 2023 (6 months ago)
Jainil
04:56 PMI.e. I want to find all the people who have a job title with "Engineer" in it, but not "Backend"
Jainil
04:57 PMtitle:engineer && title:!backendBut that didn't seem to work.
Jainil
05:47 PMI.e.
title:engineer && title:!`back end`
Jason
07:07 PMtitle:engineer && title:!=`back end`Jason
07:07 PMJainil
07:08 PMJason
07:08 PMJainil
07:09 PMJainil
07:12 PMhttps://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/155#issuecomment-736515398
Jainil
07:12 PMJason
07:13 PMq parameterJainil
07:35 PMhttps://github.com/typesense/typesense/issues/1046
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