How can I ignore a symbol when searching?

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pl303
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How can I ignore a symbol when searching?

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(Machine Translation)For example, I want to search for files with the file name abc-123.mp4, and generally speaking, I can find it by typing abc-123 in the search box, but I want the software to ignore the "-" symbol and just search for abc123, how can I do that?
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void
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Re: How can I ignore a symbol when searching?

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Everything 1.4 searches for what you type.
Please try searching for:
abc 123

Everything will search for abc AND 123



Everything 1.5 will add the following functionality:
Ctrl + Shift + V will paste text into the search box without punctuation.
Search menu -> Ignore Punctuation will ignore punctuation in filenames.
pl303
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Re: How can I ignore a symbol when searching?

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Thank you for your response,this solved my problem perfectly
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