Re: [discuss] [Really last] Why are quoted searches sohard toimplement?

>
> Why couldn't it be enough to insert quotes in the normal search string?

Because legacy servers will not ignore the quotes.

>
> Legacy servers will ignore those quotes anyway (in the routines that 
> parse and simplify the search string and split it into indexable 
> keywords for QRP, or matching keywords for the local library), and 
> will return results matching enough keywords in any order, but new 
> servers will not ignore them.

See above.

> Also, should quoted searches match words exactly, or with 
> unsignificant case? If exact match is required, this will probably 
> require adding some search-semantics bits in GGEP. I see little 
> interest in augmenting too much the Query message length by 
> duplicating the string...

See the discussion on the core list.  The string isn't being 
duplicated, the GGEP will contain the index of the quotes.

Thanks,
  Sam

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