[resolved] The PSU search doesn't find any hyphenated words >> "Spinnen-Ragwurz"

[JensSteyer]

I went out to photograph wild orchids yesterday. One species is called Große Spinnen-Ragwurz (Ophrys sphegodes). The images have the corresponding catalog labels:

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Why doesn't the PSU search for "spider orchid" find anything? This confuses me...

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Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance.

[RobiWan]

Jens,

better use Advanced Search

Maybe I'm wrong but I mean your search is wrong.
correct is - Spinnen-Ragwurz@xmp.dc:subject

[JensSteyer]

Thanks Robert, but I don't understand what's wrong with my search.

How do you search for a hyphenated word in English in PSU? Your suggestion leads to a wrong search in German PSU.

[Hert]

"Spinnen-Ragwurz" is an exact search, but there is no exact match
Spinnen-Ragwurz becomes Spinnen NOT Ragwurz (hyphen is a NOT indicator)

The solution for the search bar is (note the space which means that both words must occur).

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Spinnen Ragwurz

or

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Spinnen AND Ragwurz

Robert is right: using Advanced Search is probably easier:
1. Press Ctrl+F to open the Advanced Search panel (Cmd+F on macOS)
2. Set the search field to Catalog Label Contains spinnen-ragwurz

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[JensSteyer]

Now it works wonderfully, thank you, Hert and Robert.