Less entries of global search compared to column name (example Search API (regular expressions))

RobertEcker

Why are less entries found when i use the global search compared to a specific column?

allan

Because of the $ end character. The global search does the search on a concatenated string containing the data of all of the searchable columns (source). Its done that way for efficiency of operation of the global search (i.e. one rexeg execution per row rather than one per cell). The disadvantage is that you can't use the start / end regex commands as might be expected.

Allan