~ reserved word

Question

~ reserved word

kamaydeo opened this issue 8 years ago · 3 comments

This is more of a question. I noticed that ~ is reserved but I don't see it in the supported operators. I would like to use ~ for fuzzy searches e.g q=name=~bob

However, this is not allowed since it's a reserved keyword. Can you explain the use for "~"?

Answer 1 · 2016-07-14T12:16:29.000Z

I agree. I wanted to create LIKE(~=), NOT_LIKE(!~=) etc, but ComparisonOperator won't allow it.
Tilde (~) fits naturally with regex type searches and is URL safe.

Answer 2 · 2017-02-06T23:06:28.000Z

Tilde (~) fits naturally with regex type searches and is URL safe.

That’s the exact reason why it’s reserved, so I can add ~= operator in future.

Answer 3 · 2018-04-10T18:34:26.000Z

any update for adding ~= ?

i am following this article, which uses == and replaces *'s with % and does like ... so my problem was always solved.