Can I get a different character to mimic the behavior of the hyphen ('-') using separatorsToIndex? – Algolia

The hyphen (-) is a special character with a specific hard-coded behavior in Algolia's engine that cannot currently be fully replicated by other non-alphanumeric characters, even if those characters are added to separatorsToIndex.

For example, if you have a record with the SKU'12-34', the following queries will all return a match for the record above:

‘12-34’ (exact match)
‘12 34' (space instead of hyphen)
‘1234’ (concatenation of tokens on either side of hyphen)

If you have a record with a different non-alphanumeric character, though, such as SKU'12/34', only the first two of these queries will return a match for that record:

‘12/34' (exact match)
‘12 34' (space instead of '/')
‘1234’ (concatenation of tokens on either side of '/', will not be a match)

Adding the '/' character toseparatorsToIndex will make it searchable as a separate word instead of just treating it as a space, but you will still not get a match on query #3.

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