Search results with or without space

[Twinsense]

Best,

I get different search results when entering the becoming with space and without space, for example ‘NEN 3140′ and NEN3140’. See screenshots attached. I am using your index table. Can you help me what I have set wrong here? I would like the same search results regardless of the use of spaces or capital letters.

Thanks in advance,
Tom Verkooijen

[Ernest Marcinko]

Hi,

I’m afraid this may not be possible. I could go into pages on pages to explain why, but to put it simply it’s basically a database query limitation.

I see a possible solution though via a small custom code snippet, but it’s no magic. This snippet will separate/put spaces silently before sending the query between numbers and letters, so for most cases should yield the same output.

add_filter(
	'asp_search_phrase_before_cleaning',
	function ( $phrase ) {
		preg_match_all('/([0-9]+|[a-zA-Z]+)/', $phrase, $matches);
		return implode(' ', $matches[1]);
	}
);

Try adding this code via the Code Snippets plugin or to the functions.php file in your theme/child theme directory – make sure to have a full server back-up first for safety. For more details you can check the safe coding guidelines.

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