Community Wishlist Survey 2020/Wiktionary/Allow searching using ^ and $ anchors at least for intitle: searches

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Allow searching using ^ and $ anchors at least for intitle: searches

  • Problem: For some reasons, CirrusSearch doesn't support ^ and $ anchors (It is not possible to search for strings beginning/ending with some sequence.) While I understand it's probably not needed for whole document searches, it would find practical uses in the context of intitle: searches.
  • Who would benefit: On Wiktionary it would be possible to search for words (entries) that start with a specific prefix / end with a specific suffix. But clearly there would be many other uses outside Wiktionary.
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  • Proposer: Zabavuju flašku chlastu maskovanou jako zubní pastu (talk) 15:29, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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