Answers.Body: <p>You're close! According to <a href="https://craftcms.com/docs/searching" rel="nofollow">the entry on searching in the Craft docs</a>, this should work:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{% set myQuery = craft.entries.section('channelName').limit(null).search('title::C*').order('title') | group('title|first') %}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Note the format of the search string with a double colon: <code>title::C*</code>.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Worked perfectly. Thanks @steve-rowling! I must have just overlooked this option in the list. Late night coding will do just that :)
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Answers.Body: <p>Changing <code>.search('title:C*')</code> to <code>.search('title::C*')</code> appears to work, on my end – the <code>::</code> essentially tells Craft that there shouldn't be anything in front of the "C".</p>
  
  <p>Also, for this to work you need to <strong>not</strong> have enabled <a href="https://craftcms.com/support/enabling-fuzzy-search-by-default" rel="nofollow">fuzzy search</a> by default.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thanks Mats. It does seem to be working though without any changes to our default fuzzy search setting.
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Answers.Text: Right, I meant that it works unless you've enabled default fuzzy searching, i.e. the vanilla `defaultSearchTermOptions ` configuration will be fine. Poor wording on my part :)
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Answers.Text: I thought that might have been your intent :) Thanks again.
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Answers.Text: No worries @NickL. :)
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Body: <p>We're looking to pull entries from a channel that starts with a specific letter. We've tried using Craft's search option, with <code>'C*'</code>, to pull any title with a word that starts with C. However, it's pulling entries whose second or third words begin with C as well. Is there another route we should consider to achieve this result?</p>
  
  <pre><code>{% set myQuery = craft.entries.section('channelName').limit(null).search('title:C*').order('title') | group('title|first') %}
  </code></pre>
  
Tags: <entries><search>
Title: Searching entries by title's first initial only
ThreadText: # Searching entries by title's first initial only
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2016-08-15)
  
  We're looking to pull entries from a channel that starts with a specific letter. We've tried using Craft's search option, with `'C*'`, to pull any title with a word that starts with C. However, it's pulling entries whose second or third words begin with C as well. Is there another route we should consider to achieve this result?
  
  ```
  {% set myQuery = craft.entries.section('channelName').limit(null).search('title:C*').order('title') | group('title|first') %}
  
  ```
  
  **Tags:** entries, search
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2016-08-15. Score: 1
  
  You're close! According to [the entry on searching in the Craft docs](https://craftcms.com/docs/searching), this should work:
  
  ```
  {% set myQuery = craft.entries.section('channelName').limit(null).search('title::C*').order('title') | group('title|first') %}
  
  ```
  
  Note the format of the search string with a double colon: `title::C*`.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Worked perfectly. Thanks @username_1! I must have just overlooked this option in the list. Late night coding will do just that :)  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2016-08-15. Score: 1
  
  Changing `.search('title:C*')` to `.search('title::C*')` appears to work, on my end – the `::` essentially tells Craft that there shouldn't be anything in front of the "C".
  
  Also, for this to work you need to **not** have enabled [fuzzy search](https://craftcms.com/support/enabling-fuzzy-search-by-default) by default.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thanks username_2. It does seem to be working though without any changes to our default fuzzy search setting.  
  > **username_2**: Right, I meant that it works unless you've enabled default fuzzy searching, i.e. the vanilla `defaultSearchTermOptions ` configuration will be fine. Poor wording on my part :)  
  > **username_0**: I thought that might have been your intent :) Thanks again.  
  > **username_2**: No worries @NickL. :)  
  
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