Comment 1 for bug 1373601

Also noting that while a search for "o, africa!" fails, a search for "o, africa! : a novel" is successful, so it definitely seems to only be having trouble with punctuation at the beginning or end.

I think there are times when we want the ending punctuation to be ignored, especially when it is punctuation like a / that is not part of the title, but is part of cataloging practice. However, when the punctuation is part of the title, it should work.

Given the results of the 2.3 testing, I'm wondering if this change occurred as part of the large query parser changes that came with 2.4?

Michele, I removed the word exact from the title of the bug report so that it doesn't get confused with the "Matches Exactly" search option, which works a bit differently.