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https://github.com/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/246#issuecomment-801816980 https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/sqlite-utils/issues/246 801816980 MDEyOklzc3VlQ29tbWVudDgwMTgxNjk4MA== 37962604 2021-03-18T10:40:32Z 2021-03-18T10:43:04Z NONE

I have found a similar problem, but I only when using that type of query (with * for doing a prefix search). I'm also building something on top of FTS5/sqlite-utils, and the way I decided to handle it was creating a specific function for prefixes. According to the docs, the query can be done in this 2 ways:

sql ... MATCH '"one two thr" * ' ... MATCH 'one + two + thr*'

I thought I could build a query like the first one using this function:

python def prefix(query: str): return f'"{query}" *'

And then I use the output of that function as the query parameter for the standard .search() method in sqlite-utils.

However, my use case is different because I'm the one "deciding" when to use a prefix search, not the end user. I also haven't done many tests, but maybe you found that useful. One thing I could think of is checking if the query has an * at the end, remove it and build the prefix query using the function above.

This is just for prefix queries, I think having the escaping function is still useful for other use cases.

 
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