dashes in selector values

[Jason Huck]

Am I right in understanding that there's no way to escape or encode a dash ("-") for use within a selector value (that has to be sanitized)? Looking at the code for $sanitizer it looks like it's just converted to a space. That seemingly makes it impossible to search for terms like "x-ray." Any workarounds for this?

[Robin S]

Works for me. I put x-ray into the body field on page 'Three' and got this result in Selector Test:

Edit: just realised you're asking about selector values that are going through a sanitizer. Not sure which sanitizer you are using, but $sanitizer->text() keeps dashes intact.

[kongondo]

Really? So, we cannot have pages titled "X-Ray" then? 

echo '<pre>';
print_r($sanitizer->testAll('x-ray'));
echo '</pre>';
// results
Array
(
    [name] => x-ray
    [names] => x-ray
    [varName] => x_ray
    [fieldName] => x_ray
    [templateName] => x-ray
    [pageName] => x-ray
    [pageNameTranslate] => x-ray
    [filename] => x-ray
    [path] => x-ray
    [pagePathName] => x-ray
    [email] => 
    [emailHeader] => x-ray
    [text] => x-ray
    [textarea] => x-ray
    [url] => x-ray
    [selectorField] => x_ray
    [selectorValue] => x-ray
    [entities] => x-ray
    [entities1] => x-ray
    [unentities] => x-ray
    [entitiesMarkdown] => x-ray
    [purify] => x-ray
    [string] => x-ray
    [date] => 
    [int] => 0
    [intUnsigned] => 0
    [intSigned] => 0
    [float] => 0
    [array] => Array
        (
            [0] => x-ray
        )

    [intArray] => Array
        (
            [0] => 0
        )

    [bool] => 1
)

http://processwire.com/api/variables/sanitizer/

[netcarver]

I have a load of sanitised values containing '-' characters that I successfully use in selectors; I'm working with one at the moment. It's disallowed from sanitised field names though - as they get translated to PHP variable names and have to follow the same rules.

[Jason Huck]

Whoops, my bad. I had read this: http://cheatsheet.processwire.com/sanitizer/properties-and-methods/sanitizer-selectorvalue-value/

...combined with this: http://processwire.com/api/selectors/#sanitizing

...and spotted this: https://github.com/processwire/processwire/blob/master/wire/core/Sanitizer.php#L1506

...and since searches containing dashes weren't working in this project, had come to the conclusion that $sanitizer->selectorValue() considered dashes to be illegal characters and was replacing them with spaces, but that's clearly not the case.

I've since discovered that dashes are ignored characters by default in the Indexer module, which is what I'm using for search. I've taken that character out of the Ignored Characters field and reindexed all objects, but still not getting results. Most likely some old results are cached somewhere. I'll verify dashes are actually present in the indexer field, and take it from there. Thanks for the clarification!