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Typesense's Handling of Quotes in String Field Sorting

TLDR Nikhil inquired if Typesense ignores quotes during string field sorting. Kishore Nallan confirmed, explaining special characters are removed during tokenization.

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Oct 13, 2023 (1 month ago)
Nikhil
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Nikhil
03:16 PM
Does typesense automatically ignore the quotes when sorting by a string field? I am glad it works this way and just wanted to confirm this behavior.
"Def" shows up after Abc even though Def is in quotes
Kishore Nallan
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Kishore Nallan
03:24 PM
During tokenization we remove special characters like quotes etc.

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