Querying Special Characters in Database
TLDR robert had difficulty searching for $ in documents. Jason explained how to include special characters in search indexing.
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Aug 05, 2022 (17 months ago)
robert
05:28 PM$ a protected query char? Can't seem to search $ amongst my text. I could see users wanting to look up % / $ to find numbers in their document
Jason
05:29 PMsymbols_to_index setting when creating a collectionrobert
05:32 PM1
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