Searches for exact words

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D_Hailsham

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Is there any way that you can make a search look for only what you type?

For example: I want to search for posts containing the word "optimization". (It's being used as a technical term in the relevant context)

The results also come up with those containing: optimise, optimiser, optimising.

I don't want those - they are chaff as far as I am concerned.

I've tried an "exact phrase" search as well as enclosing the word in quotes. Nothing works. :x

So how do I make the search do what I want?
 
You can't, or should I say couldn't.

You now can. If you use the = in front of a term that specifies and exact word match without trying to second guess you.

Example
 
DIYnot said:
You can't, or should I say couldn't.

You now can. If you use the = in front of a term that specifies and exact word match without trying to second guess you.
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Just what I was looking for! I only hope I can remember what you have to do.

Is it in the Search help?
 
Well - it doesn't work.

Firstly, if "with the exact phrase" actually did what it says there would be no need for a = prefix, it ought to do what it says and search for the exact string.

Secondly searching for "Part P" does not work, and neither does ="Part P".
 
It does work now, the minimum word length to index was 2 characters, hence P was ignored. It is now indexed so will work.
 
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