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[WD_Guy]

Hi All, Can someone point me in the right direction; when I search within my database - in my case searching for a bunch of releases with 80's in the title - I have found an anomaly with they way searches are returned. If I search for albums that specifically have the Characters "80s" it ignores this specific string and misses albums with this exact match in the title. If I reduce to just "80" it will start to find them. But ? if I add that last 's' it ignores them. It makes searching for these albums a pain in the butt.  Any ideas  ?

[Matt]

Searching for 80s or 80's will be replaced by 1980-1989.  The program is trying to support natural language.

[blgentry]

I can confirm this happens with my system as well.  Putting double quotes around the search term like "80s" makes the literal search work.

I'm not sure this conversion from 80s to 1980-1989 makes sense.  If this "natural language" emulation is desirable, maybe it should be an OR condition.  Meaning that if you type 80s, then what you actually get results for, behind the scenes is:

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80s 1980-1989
That would get you both sets of results and not confuse those who are searching for the literal string 80s.

Brian.