Hi everyone,

A nice little issue that I've just encountered! :)

I need to provide a case-insensitive search on some string field, where the 
beginning of the string should suggest the different results.
Ex: 'thom' and 'Thom' should find 'Thomas'

Initially, I used a full-text index and it worked really great... until we 
found out that some users had special characters like dots in their 
usernames: 'i.M.O' for example. I guess that the full-text index strips all 
punctuations, so those don't get indexed.

So my current idea is to:
- create a composite field that contains the lower-cased username
- use a skiplist index on that field
- search with FILTER newField >= 'query' && newField < 'query!'
NOTE that '!' would be a character that is > than any other one; I still 
have to find which character that would be as it seems that the normal 
ASCII order is not respected: RETURN 'z' < '~' return false

Any comment would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Thomas

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