Allow search for "???" - don't use wildcard

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Allow search for "???" - don't use wildcard #15

Closed david-allison closed 3 years ago

david-allison commented 3 years ago

I can't see how to initiate a new issue - but some Ned Beg pieces have '???' in the text - indicating that I wasn't sure of the translation and wanted to discuss with other contributors. When I use ??? in the search field I find other items, and the markers I was looking for are not highlighted.

Originally posted by @robteare in https://github.com/david-allison-1/manx-search-data/issues/322#issuecomment-839536219

david-allison commented 3 years ago

Let's use escape sequences to avoid wildcards

david-allison commented 3 years ago

I changed the wildcard to '_', it was much easier, and this is also a standard

A trailing question mark is stripped if at the end of the sequence.
A word ending in ??? does not need the question marks