Search Result Error When Reference Contains Minus/hyphen Sign

[Eliyas]

I have about 460 products. In BO prestashop>Preference>Search, it shows The "indexed" products have been analyzed by PrestaShop and will appear in the results of a front office search. Indexed products 381 / 381.

 

The  products with reference number containing " - " sign in it and less than 5 characters, does not show in search result. Like:

po-2

y-52

A-5

4-IM

 

All other products with reference containg more than 5 characters show up in search results. Like :

po-212

po1-243

A-511

 

How can I solve this problem, so that these articles also show in the search results. Thanks

Edited January 19, 2016 by Eliyas (see edit history)

[tuk66]

This is a feature. Dash is a delimiter and there are indexed at least 3 characters.

 

NO po-2

NO po-21

YES po-212 (212 is indexed)

Edited January 19, 2016 by tuk66 (see edit history)

[Eliyas]

Thanks for clarifying. Now is there any way around, so that these products also show up in search result?  I have many products with "-" symbols. 

[tuk66]

You can override the Search class to forget dash to be a delimiter.

[Eliyas]

I  look up for search.php file in classes folder and tried to figure out what to edit. I am no programmer.

I found this line .

if ($indexation) {

            $string = preg_replace('/[._-]+/', ' ', $string);

        }

 

 

Should I change this line (remove "-" from it) ? Or is there more to it?

 

Edit I found a solution from here

https://www.prestashop.com/forums/topic/317997-frontpage-search-with-minus-in/

Edited January 26, 2016 by Eliyas (see edit history)