Search ignore punctuation and others

[sww]

Hey there,

i am trying to add a kind of "intelligent" search.
Is there any way to ignore punctuation and extra chars.

e.g.

When I type "somebody elses" that I still get the result "SOMEBODY ELSE´S CAR, 2005"
The problem is the extra ´ … if I don't type it I don't get the result.

So far I am using %=query (which isn't enough, I know)

So the idea would be something like that:

$selector = "sanitize(title|text)%=$q, limit=50";

I know, it's not gonna work like that … just to illustrate.

Best,
Stefan

[BitPoet]

Doesn't the "~=" operator do what you want?

[sww]

Nope … ~= is even more restrictive … it needs the exact word. so typing "someb" … wouldn't give me anything.

The fields I am searching need to have something like "ignore punctuation optional".