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Asked: 2026-05-25T14:06:39+00:00

I am looking to perform an exact match on a phrase within specified delimiters

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I am looking to perform an exact match on a phrase within specified delimiters in MySQL. I have the following data in a full text index field.

,garden furniture,patio heaters,best offers,best deals,

I am performing the following query which is returning the aforementioned record.

SELECT id, tags
FROM Store 
WHERE MATCH(tags) AGAINST(',garden,' IN BOOLEAN MODE)

I only want to return records which contain the value: ,garden, not ,garden furniture, or ,country garden, etc.

It is currently performing a greedy match and ignoring the comma delimiters specified in the query. I have attempted to escape the commas to force them to be included in the query, but this does not work.

Is is possible to specify non-alphanumeric delimiters as part of the match? I want to be able to perform an exact match, like a regular expression i.e '/,garden,/'.

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  1. Editorial Team

    From the docs:

    Modify a character set file: This requires no recompilation. The true_word_char() macro uses a “character type” table to distinguish letters and numbers from other characters. . You can edit the contents of the <ctype><map> array in one of the character set XML files to specify that ‘,’ is a “letter.” Then use the given character set for your FULLTEXT indexes. For information about the <ctype><map> array format, see Section 9.3.1, “Character Definition Arrays”.

    An other option is to add a new collation.

    Either way, you’ll have to rebuild the index:

    REPAIR TABLE Store QUICK;
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