Search quotes for word boundary specificity?

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Reported by: mxmilkiib Date: 2020-12-01T04:00:34Z Status: Confirmed Importance: Wishlist Launchpad Issue: lp1906340

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Searching genre:electro brings up electronic, electronica, electroacoustic, etc.

Searching with quotes, genre:"electro" gives the same set of results.

How about making it so that using quotes requires the search string word end to match the result string word end?

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Commented by: Holzhaus Date: 2020-12-01T09:41:24Z

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Using quotes allows to include spaces, but I don't think it should require an exact match. How about using ^ and $ like in regexes? 

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Commented by: Holzhaus Date: 2020-12-01T09:42:28Z

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Or maybe "electro "?

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Commented by: mxmilkiib Date: 2020-12-02T04:34:28Z

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Ah, so yes, "electro " does work.

Now what one might expect from Google but hey :)

Easiest option would just be to mention this behaviour in the library/search section of the manual?

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Commented by: Holzhaus Date: 2020-12-02T09:11:53Z

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Easiest option would just be to mention this behaviour in the library/search section of the manual?

Sure, a Pull Request for the manual repository would be appreciated. https://github.com/mixxxdj/manual

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Commented by: daschuer Date: 2021-05-21T21:19:22Z

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For me, using quotes would be also the a solution I would try first.

Is the use case for searching for a space between words without giving the full word?

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Commented by: daschuer Date: 2021-05-21T21:26:20Z

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This would be still possible without a closing "