Searching Indexes, whole word matches only - Help!

[LNA]

Hi,

I am using the current latest version of OS Forensics.

I am attepmting to do an exact word search but have been having the following problem.
When I search for the word "statement" (entered in to the search box with the quotes), I get results that show the word "statement" and "statements".

Is there a way that the search results can provide whole word matches only?

Similarly if I seach for "rainman" I get search results appearing for the word "rain".

Is there way to exclude partial matches?

Thanks,

LNA

[David (PassMark)]

What you are seeing is not a partial match. At least not in the sense of it being a substring / wildcard match. What you are seeing if the effect of the stemming feature.

So for example, the words fish, fishes, fishing, fished all match when you do a search for fish. Normally this is a good thing and it means you don't need to do a search for both the singular and plural form.

This feature can be turned off for a set of index files during the index creation process. In step 2, click on the "Advanced options" button. Then uncheck the "Enable stemming" box.