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Enhanced Text Search functionality

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Description

The existing Text Search is really good and with the "" wildcard is does support ANDing of search terms.
e.g. a search term quality
food would match strings "quality food" and "great quality and great food"

However it would be really powerful if additional search term operators could be added, such as the following examples

ORing - A logical OR of search terms so for example the terms pub OR bar OR club would match strings containing any of those terms removing the need to search for them separately

NOT - A logical NOT of a search term so for example pub NOT bar would find strings containing pub but not containing club

ANYORDER - Match ANDed terms that appear in any order in a string
e.g. ANYORDER [pub*bar] would match strings "I go to pubs and bars" and "I go to bars and pubs"

Many users are used to using advanced search operators and these types of additional operators would really add power to searching and analysing text data from sources such as social data, CX and user feedback.

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Research direction

Start by locating the existing Text Search implementation and its matching tests or entry points. Define the syntax and precedence for OR, NOT, and ANYORDER, then verify the specified examples and edge cases with tests. Done means the operators work alongside the existing wildcard and AND behavior.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
search
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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