Searching on 'starts with' does not work for title or subitle

A plain-words interpretation of Title “starts with” could be that it’s to consider that text field as one , and that this would be the Start and the End of that whole paragraph.

I hadn’t considered before though - is the true meaning of this option, that it’s considering the metadata only in terms of looking for individual words (regardless where these occur in sequence) which themselves start with / end with the characters stated?

If that is the logic, then it WOULD be as-designed when filtering for Starts with ”fred”, for a photo titled ‘Lunch with Frederica’ to show; but for a photo titled ‘Alfred’s new hat’ not to show. Conversely, if filtering for Ends with “fred” neither photo should show. Filtering for Contains “fred” both photos should show; filtering for Contains Words “fred” neither should show.

Hmmmm

Moderators, ​@Sameer K, please merge with the existing bug report:

https://community.adobe.com/bug-reports-674/p-starts-with-text-filter-on-captions-or-filename-incorrectly-matches-words-664284?sort=oldestFirst#comments

“Starts with” and “Ends with” has been bugged for quite some time. I believe it started about two years ago with version 13.3.

I can confirm this on 15.6 release (Windows).

Say two images include the same word in their Title: in one case as first word, in the other as last word.

Create a SC / apply a Filter which includes a rule for Title, “starts with”, this word. 

Expected result: only images with this word ‘starting’ the Title to be shown, otherwise to be hidden (where this word occurs somewhere else, or is not present).

Actual result: all images are shown which include this word anywhere in their Title - regardless whether “starts with”, "ends with” or “contains” option was used.

Moved to Lightroom Classic