# Contains filter only searches for words

**URL:** <https://forum.bubble.io/t/contains-filter-only-searches-for-words/1078>\
**Category:** Need help\
**Created:** [January 16, 2016, 1:08pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/contains-filter-only-searches-for-words/1078 "2016-01-16T13:08:36Z")\
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Hello again,

This is something we are looking at in the medium-term. Several other users asked for it and it makes lots of sense, it’s been delayed since it has deeper performance implications. We’ll look into starts\_with and ends\_with at the same time as this.

Thanks for bringing it up!

No way to write your own function quite yet.

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