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Subject: Re: strange behavior of indexing of and searching for strings
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On Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:24:06 -0500, Jameson Rollins <jrollins@finestructure.net> wrote:
> I don't think that this is exactly correct.  The quoting is interpreted
> by the shell in order to construct a single string that is then passed
> as an argument to the program.

The command line distinguishes, but the constructed query does not.
Look at query-string.c, the arguments are just concatenated.

Jed