oddity: Operators- Grouping < > & Quote " "

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therube
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oddity: Operators- Grouping < > & Quote " "

Post by therube »

Just to point out...


oddity: Operators- Grouping < > & Quote " "

You may not necessarily need the closing > or closing ", depending on your search, possibly when it is the last Operator in your search.


> trick < pony | horse
or
> trick < pony | horse >

will find:

trick pony
trick horse
trick horse pony

> "trick pony
or
> "trick pony"

will find:

the trick pony

but not:

trick the pony
void
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Re: oddity: Operators- Grouping < > & Quote " "

Post by void »

This is by design, Everything tries to be forgiving as possible when it comes to "" and <>.

Instead of throwing errors, it will add the > and " terminators for you.
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