CFSEARCH and "-"

Hello,
I have a verity collection that is populated by product
descriptions. I use CFSEARCH to search this collection and it
normally works very well. However, when a search term with a dash
in it (-) is entered, it can't find the item. For example:
If I search for "French-Milled", the item French-Milled
Facial Soap does not show up in the results. Is this a problem with
verity/cfsearch or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!
Christine

Four search types. The only ones I know of are Simple and
Explicit, or
are you referring to something else.
Ian Skinner wrote:
> If I search for "French-Milled", the item French-Milled
Facial Soap does
> not show up in the results. Is this a problem with
verity/cfsearch or
> am I doing something wrong?
>
>
> Check out the search TYPE you are employing, there are
four types
> available to CF's included Verity. What maybe happening
is that the
> search type you are using is interpreting the dash as a
NOT operative.
> I.E. it is parsing the search request as "FRENCH" and
NOT "MILLED".
> Which of course "French-Milled Facial Soap" would fail.
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