How to ignore leading special characters in sphinx search?

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For example, we want the search term "Test" to match the word "@Test" and "(Test)"in the results.

it does this by default. Unless you have added these chars to the charset_table in the config — barryhunter, Jan 18 '13 at 14:52
thats it, thanks. If you move that to an answer I can select it as the answer. — Jack, Jan 19 '13 at 09:10

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 20 '13 at 17:37

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it does this by default. Unless you have added these chars to the charset_table in the config

answered Jan 20 '13 at 17:37

barryhunter

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '13 at 10:43

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Did you try with escape character backslash just before special characters.
Also check there is EscapeString function available in sphinx API.

answered Jan 18 '13 at 10:43

Minesh

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