force word search
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2026 6:19 pm
Hi,
Is there a way to constrain a search to whole words? A search for "cat" will return "Catalina" and "concatenate" as well as "cat". If I just want the animal, I'm used to searching for ' "cat" ' with double quotes and getting just cats. Can I do this somehow in NeoFinder?
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate being able to search strings rather than words because, for example, I can usually search for singular and plural in one go, as well as other useful cases. It's just that sometimes, I feel the need to go the other way. A search for "tim", for a real example, returns "estimate" and "time", common enough words to cause a problem.
-Carl
Is there a way to constrain a search to whole words? A search for "cat" will return "Catalina" and "concatenate" as well as "cat". If I just want the animal, I'm used to searching for ' "cat" ' with double quotes and getting just cats. Can I do this somehow in NeoFinder?
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate being able to search strings rather than words because, for example, I can usually search for singular and plural in one go, as well as other useful cases. It's just that sometimes, I feel the need to go the other way. A search for "tim", for a real example, returns "estimate" and "time", common enough words to cause a problem.
-Carl