# Search string URL

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [July 20, 2017, 10:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500 "2017-07-20T10:31:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vimala\_Ayya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47c2d/32.png) [@Vimala\_Ayya](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Vimala_Ayya)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2017, 10:31am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-string-url/66500/1 "2017-07-20T10:31:42Z")

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This is probably a very silly question but I need to link to the forum from another website with a search query but any search queries I run come up with the wrong answers.

For instance, if I want to search for DN1 via `../search?q=DN1` , it also comes up with DN10, DN11,DN101, etc. If I try something like `../search?q=DN1%20` it just strips the whitespace and comes up with the same result. I tried various other ways but cannot find the correct search query to run. So what is the correct way?

Thanks!

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