Why are certain characters ignored by Copernic Desktop Search?

Modified on Wed, 18 Jan, 2023 at 1:47 PM

When I search for specific characters, CDS looks like it just ignores them.


Certain characters are ignored by Copernic Desktop Search during the indexing phase, and thus considered as white spaces.


Here is a list of the characters that are ignored by Copernic Desktop Search during indexing :


period .comma ,semicolon ;
underscore _slash /backslash
ampersand &left parenthesis (right parenthesis )
left square bracket [right square bracket ]left curly brace {
right curly brace }exclamation mark !less-than sign <
greater-than sign >at sign @quotation mark "
apostrophe 'colon :equal sign =
vertical bar |plus sign +hyphen -
question mark ?asterisk *

For more information, please refer to the topic Search Operators on the online help.

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