#Guide to full-text search with Meilisearch
pastel karma
boreal grove
How does it handle - in the word to be searched (Part numbers)? PostgreSQL does a terrible job of it
pastel karma
hey @boreal grove, do you mean how does meilisearch handles the dash (-) in words?
If that's what you're asking:
By default, the - character is considered "a soft separator". It means that Meilisearch considers that words separated by a dash are effectively two words (pretty much as if it were a blank space.)
It's possible to remove this behavior for the - character (or any other character), see: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/reference/api/settings#separator-tokens
