this is a working example i found on mysql.com this is my example of fullsearch mysql> desc fullsearch; +-------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | Field | Type | Null | Key | Default | Extra | +-------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ | id | int(10) unsigned | | PRI | NULL | auto_increment | | title | varchar(200) | YES | MUL | NULL | | | body | text | YES | | NULL | | +-------+------------------+------+-----+---------+----------------+ 3 rows in set (0.00 sec)
my data: mysql> select * from fullsearch; +----+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ | id | title | body | +----+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ | 1 | MySQL Tutorial | DBMS stands for DataBase ... | | 2 | How To Use MySQL Well | After you went through a ... | | 3 | Optimizing MySQL | In this tutorial we will show ... | | 4 | 1001 MySQL Tricks | 1. Never run mysqld as root. 2. ... | | 5 | MySQL vs. YourSQL | In the following database comparison ... | | 6 | 018-E | Test for Title Item COde search language, etc | | 7 | MySQL Security | When configured properly, MySQL ... | +----+-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ my search the title with a "-" code mysql> select * from fullsearch where match (title,body) against ('018-E'); Empty set (0.00 sec) it returns an empty set, is it possible to also search with "-" dash? chars? -- Louie Miranda http://www.axishift.com -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]