Answers.Body: <p>This sounds like a good approach and could be done using a twig filter on your search string.</p>
  
  <p>Here are the first two lines of the example from the docs:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{% set query = craft.request.getParam('q') %}
  {% set entries = craft.entries.search(query|customFilter).order('score') %}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In this example <code>query</code> is now modified by <code>customFilter</code> and can be updated in your Twig filter to behave however you like.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I want to use the standard site search but much prefer that (first) part word search is in place by default. By this I mean if a user searches for dog they will also find dogs, so the term Craft uses would then be dog*.</p>
  
  <p>My strategy would then be to take the search string (e.g. 'dog fee') and remove any commas or fullstops unless the string is in quotes ("dog fee"). I would then split the string using spaces and throw away any empty strings ('dog', 'fee'), and then append the * to each word and send 'dog* fee*' to the search system.</p>
  
  <p>Is this the best approach to get what I want, or have I missed a glaringly obvious and easy way of doing it?</p>
  
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Title: Best way to effect part word searching by default
ThreadText: # Best way to effect part word searching by default
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-02-11)
  
  I want to use the standard site search but much prefer that (first) part word search is in place by default. By this I mean if a user searches for dog they will also find dogs, so the term Craft uses would then be dog\*.
  
  My strategy would then be to take the search string (e.g. 'dog fee') and remove any commas or fullstops unless the string is in quotes ("dog fee"). I would then split the string using spaces and throw away any empty strings ('dog', 'fee'), and then append the \* to each word and send 'dog\* fee\*' to the search system.
  
  Is this the best approach to get what I want, or have I missed a glaringly obvious and easy way of doing it?
  
  **Tags:** search
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-08-15. Score: 4
  
  This sounds like a good approach and could be done using a twig filter on your search string.
  
  Here are the first two lines of the example from the docs:
  
  ```
  {% set query = craft.request.getParam('q') %}
  {% set entries = craft.entries.search(query|customFilter).order('score') %}
  
  ```
  
  In this example `query` is now modified by `customFilter` and can be updated in your Twig filter to behave however you like.
  
  
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