[ic] exact matching

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Grant)]

>> I've got a search like this:
>>
>> [loop search="tf=notes/sf=category/se='[scratch category]'/op=eq/nu=0"]
>>
>> It searches my products db category field.  It works great except for the
>> category "Miscellaneous".  When [scratch category] equals
>Miscellaneous it
>> also returns all the items with the category of "Miscellaneous
>> Posters".  I
>> have tried various searched which incorporate "em" but they all either
>> return the same results as above, or cause all my results for all
>> categories
>> to be blank.  Anyone know how to make this work?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>>
>
>Hi Grant
>
>I seem to remember a few questions like this go through the list.
>I tried to
>do a little searching for you, but came up empty :(
>
>I seem to remember there was not much way around this, of course I can be
>and am frequently wrong :)
>
>Anyways if it is absolutely necessary, you could probably rename all your
>categories inserting a '_' for spaces, so:
>
>Miscellaneous Posters  ->  Miscellaneous_Posters
>
>Then whenever you need to display the actual category, as a page design
>element, run it through some perl and replace underscores with spaces. I
>believe if you are not searching substrings, it will not find the unwanted
>categories.
>
>It is a bad bad horrible ugly clunky fix, but that's the way I like em ;)
>
>Paul

Thanks Paul, but not what I wanted to hear :)  Hopefully someone else knows
a way!

- Grant