I understand that. I am saying, that not changing $wcl should give the exact same results as changing + adding the query, as it is basically the same query but in a more complicated way.
– Because without the change, one like query match is executed for ‘%phrase%’.
– Whith the change, you have 2 like queries for ‘phrase%’ and ‘%phrase%’, where the ‘%phrase%’ actually includes everything matching the ‘phrase%’ as well.
I am not sure if I explained correctly, sorry about that.