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Asked: 2026-06-11T02:21:19+00:00

I’m having a problem when I try to do a full text search in

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I’m having a problem when I try to do a full text search in boolean mode using a string with a single quote and an asterisk wildcard, i.e. “levi’s*”: it seems to search also for all words beginning with “s”, like “spears”, when, as far as I know, the quote should be considered part of the word while two single quotes (”) would be a word separator… but maybe I’m wrong.

Please, look at the example here: http://www.sqlfiddle.com/#!2/3dd3e/2/0 – the second row should’t be there

how can I do what I want?

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  1. Editorial Team

    this gives you the two rows from your example:

    SELECT  *
FROM    ft
WHERE   MATCH(value) AGAINST ('"levi\'s" lacost*' IN BOOLEAN MODE)

    In http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/fulltext-boolean.html at the end, it talks about exact matches in double quotes. You then just escape the single quote and you are done.

    Using parentheses, you can add the asterisk:

    WHERE   MATCH(value) AGAINST ('(levi\'s)* lacost*' IN BOOLEAN MODE)
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