Susan, I'm a bit rusty on the precision syntax, but I think you'd need select textid, text from text_table where contains(text,'{Lethal Weapon 2}') = 100 i.e. 100% match from contains() ... not the "more than 0% match" that you had. I'm happy to be corrected by those in the know. Ciao Fuzzy :-) ---------------------------------- "Everything you think, do, and say was in the pill you took today." -- Zager and Evans > -----Original Message----- > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of susan lam > Sent: Thursday, 17 June 2004 14:59 > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: OracleText: Search for exact string match > > > Hi, > I'm trying to write a query in Oracle Text that > returns an exact string match but the output also > returns records that are partially matched. > > For example, I want the query below to just return ONE > record - "Lethal Weapon 2" but it also returned a > partially matched record - "Lethal Weapon 4". > > select textid, text from text_table > where contains(text,'{Lethal Weapon 2}')>0; > TEXTID TEXT > -------- --------------------- > 2 Lethal Weapon 2 > 3 Lethal Weapon 4 > > 2 rows selected. > > Any idea how I can rewrite my query? > > Thanks in advance. > > susan > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------