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Hyphenated Words

By default, CA DLP ignores the hyphen in hyphenated words when searching for key words or phrases. This provides built-in flexibility to detect variations of words that are inconsistently hyphenated. For example:

• Example: e-mail matches e-mail or email.
• Example: email matches email or e-mail.

Note: CA DLP does not ignore other occurrences of hyphens. For example, the search text Recruitment - May 2010 only detects an exact match of this phrase, that is, "Recruitment - May 2010".

Detecting Hyphenated Words and Space-separated Words

Sometimes, normally hyphenated words or phrases can occur as two separate words. But CA DLP does not treat hyphenated words and space-separated words as synonymous. Be aware of this distinction when defining trigger search text. Use a | logical OR operator to detect both hyphenated and space-separated occurrences of your key words or phrases. For example:

Full details are in the Search Text Syntax appendix.