getRelated needs a parameter to accept only exact matches

[chunkyRice]

getRelated suffers from the same problem that tagLister does (splittingred/tagLister#19): it accepts a subset as a match. So if you have the tag "bunny" it will also return a positive match when it encounters "fluffy bunny". In many cases this renders a tag matching system virtually unusable. I'd like to use it for comic book titles. Only an exact match is a good match, subset matches are very undesirable. ('Spider-man', 'Amazing Spider-man' and 'Spectacular Spider-man' are three distinct series).

A simple parameter that will turn LIKE %[search term]% into LIKE [search term] would be very welcome.

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[Mark-H]

getRelated is not meant to be a tag-based filtering/taxonomy tool, it's meant to find similar articles. Articles about "bunnies" and "fluffy bunnies" are related, so I would expect those to show up. Same with your spider man examples, for getRelated's purpose those things are similar.