Searching for 32 character plus strings in dtSearch
- Sean O'Shea
- Oct 14, 2021
- 1 min read
Note that the dtSearch index in Relativity is configured so that it will cutoff any words which are longer than 32 characters. For example, this string:
aeccd639e83d0540ba407a252a23e53d1cfe71
. . .is 38 characters long. It appears in the EDRM Enron email data set.

But if you run a dtSearch search to find it in the searchable extracted text of a workspace, you'll get no results.

Modify the search by simply searching for the first 32 characters:
aeccd639e83d0540ba407a252a23e53d
. . . and the document in which it appears will come up in the search results:

It's not necessary to add an asterisk for a wildcard search after the 32nd character.