Hi, Thanks to all who responded to my previous question on how to get the FULLTEXT search to consider hyphens as part of a word. Now my question is, Is there a way to allow other special characters to be part of a 'word'? For example, we have the word "+x-axis" as part of a short description varchar column, and we would want the plus sign to be a significant part of the word, since we don't want to find to be just on "x-axis". Is there a way to change the word definitions, or am I going to have to add a [ ... like "%+x-axis%" ] to my query? Thanks, Marty --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php