Re: [IUG] stop character in OPAC searches?

["Steidinger, Shawn E." <SSTEIDINGER at PARTNERS dot ORG>]

This may not be what you mean to accomplish, but if you search your webpac using
the keyword index and index tags like this:

      a:robins

you'll get a results list with authors matching that exact character string,
i.e. no "Robin", or "Robinson" results... just "Robins"... This of course
doesn't help if you were also try to get "Robi" or "Rob".
--SHAWN
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Massachusetts General Hospital
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 14:50:08 -0700
From: LaVonne Jacobsen <lavonne at sfsu dot edu>
Subject: Re: [IUG] stop character in OPAC searches?
To: IUG INNOPAC List <innopac at innopacusers dot org>
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The pipe character [|] works in our webopac.

LaVonne Jacobsen
San Francisco State University Library

On Jun 9, 2008, at 6:43 AM, Parker, Tim wrote:

> Hello,
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> Is there a way to place s stop character a search in OPAC searches?
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> For example, doing an author search for "engs" that will only return
> Engs and not Engst, Engstrom, etc.
>
> I don't see a way to manipulate the "*" in a way that would do that.
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> Thanks,
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