Alternative methods to search, without using FT Search
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I am currently using the 'search in view results' option in the view control to provide the data set for my view (the reason for this is that the data set to be displayed is fairly complex depending on the user - and I was not able to accomplish this using vector filtering).

The problem I have with it, is that the search is a FT search, and that it does not let you search where a field is an exact match on a string, but rather it does a search where the field contains your string.
 
Does anyone know of an method where I can search the view for exact data? 
 
Thanks in advance. 
 
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