Punctuation at ends of words should be removed before search

[Benjamin Kalish]

Currently, according to the docs, punctuation marks occurring within a word are removed before search. https://docs.evergreen-ils.org/eg/docs/latest/opac/using_the_public_access_catalog.html

Punctuation should also be removed at the end of words, unless there is some important use case I'm failing to see.

I ran in to this with a patron today, trying to figure out why the patrons search results gave no results while mine worked fine. It turns out that a keyword search for each of the following are processed differently:

Search 1: chopin "Op. 27, No. 1"
Search 2: chopin "Op. 27 No. 1"
Search 3: chopin "Op 27, No 1"
Search 4: chopin "Op 27 No 1"

In my opinion each of these searches should return the same results.

Searches were performed on Evergreen 3-7-3.