Hi Stephen,

I decided to use raw Lucene syntax rather than the fluent API. I found that this gave me a lot more control over the query.

For an exact match using raw lucene, it's simply a case of putting the phrase in double quotes:

var Searcher = ExamineManager.Instance.SearchProviderCollection["MySearchProvider"];

var searchCriteria = Searcher.CreateSearchCriteria();

string searchQueryString = "mySearchProperty: \"high speed rail\"";

var query = searchCriteria.RawQuery(searchQueryString);

IEnumerable<SearchResult> searchResults = Searcher.Search(query);

I'm not sure how you could use this to search accross all indexed fields without explicitly specifying them however. You might be able to read in a list from your ExamineIndex.config file.

Robert

I've found an easy solution to be used in the code behind. It may help someone.

if ((searchKeyword.StartsWith("'") && searchKeyword.EndsWith("'")) || ((searchKeyword.StartsWith('"'.ToString()) && searchKeyword.EndsWith('"'.ToString()))))
{
 if (searchFilter == null)
 {
    searchFilter = siteSearcher.CreateSearchCriteria().GroupedOr(fields, searchKeyword);
 }
 else
 {
    searchFilter = searchFilter.Or().GroupedOr(fields, searchKeyword);
 }
}
else
{
 var content = searchKeyword.Split(' ');
 foreach (var word in content)
  {
   if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(word))
   {
    if (searchFilter == null)
    {
     searchFilter = siteSearcher.CreateSearchCriteria().GroupedOr(fields, word);
    }
    else
    {
     searchFilter = searchFilter.Or().GroupedOr(fields, word);
    }
   }
  }
}

Sorry for replying to an old discussion, but does this still work? I have tried this and similar and even though it all looks right, I never get to the second GroupedOr. It's as if Examine only looks at the first one and even if it finds no results it never bothers to check the second GroupedOr.

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