When combining phrase and field-end operators, Sphinx (2.0.4-release) seems to ignore the field-end operator.
E.g. when searching for
"^some phrase$"
it will correctly find “some phrase”, but it will also find “some phrase with more words”, thus ignoring the field-end operator.
Is there a way to fix this?
There’s a bug in Sphinx until version 2.0.5-release.
As a workaround use space after the field-end operator, so
will become