feature request: search for whole word and for case sensitive match

I just searched my own database for an article by a familiar first author, it happens named "Rea". From a database of nearly 20,000 entries, an Advanced Search (i.e. using " at the beginning), even restricting the search to Title, Creator and Year returned over 1000 matches, not very helpful. I have already requested that a feature of searching only first authors would have helped a lot, reducing it to 48 items for me to search further. Failing that, adding features to match only whole words, (eliminating the returns with e.g. "treatment" in the title) or case (similarly) would help a great deal. These are common constraints available for searches in other tools. They would be helpful in Zotero.
  • Presumably you know you can do an advanced search (a real advanced search, not the " thing in the quick search, which for some reason we label as "advanced search" as well) for a specific creator name, right?
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