AFAIK you are right - MySQL treats a hypen as a word-break. And, AFAIK you cannot modify that behaviour.
The only possibility, I think, would be to modify the source and compile your own MySQL. :-( However if you do a full-text search using IN BOOLEAN MODE, then you can put quotes around hypenated words. ... MATCH (col_name) AGAINST ('"s-au"' IN BOOLEAN MODE) ... HTH, James Harvard At 5:26 pm +0200 18/12/05, Octavian Rasnita wrote: >Please tell me how can I configure MySQL 5 in order to be able to search >(using fulltext indexes) for combined words like "s-au". -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]