diff --git a/phpBB/phpbb/search/backend/fulltext_native.php b/phpBB/phpbb/search/backend/fulltext_native.php
index eb25dd4a6d..0853e3a348 100644
--- a/phpBB/phpbb/search/backend/fulltext_native.php
+++ b/phpBB/phpbb/search/backend/fulltext_native.php
@@ -241,6 +241,16 @@ class fulltext_native extends base implements search_backend_interface
 						$keywords[$i] = ' ';
 					break;
 					case '-':
+						// Ignore hyphen if followed by a space
+						if (isset($keywords[$i + 1]) && $keywords[$i + 1] == ' ')
+						{
+							$keywords[$i] = ' ';
+						}
+						else
+						{
+							$space = $keywords[$i];
+						}
+					break;
 					case '+':
 						$space = $keywords[$i];
 					break;
diff --git a/tests/functional/search/base.php b/tests/functional/search/base.php
index 885cd9c684..5e3f185c39 100644
--- a/tests/functional/search/base.php
+++ b/tests/functional/search/base.php
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ abstract class phpbb_functional_search_base extends phpbb_functional_test_case
 	{
 		$crawler = self::request('GET', 'search.php?keywords=' . $keywords);
 		$this->assertEquals(0, $crawler->filter('.postbody')->count());
-		$split_keywords_string = str_replace(array('+', '-'), ' ', $keywords);
+		$split_keywords_string = str_replace('+', ' ', $keywords);
 		$this->assertEquals($split_keywords_string, $crawler->filter('#keywords')->attr('value'));
 	}
 
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ abstract class phpbb_functional_search_base extends phpbb_functional_test_case
 		$this->assert_search_found('phpbb3+installation', 1, 3);
 		$this->assert_search_found('foosubject+barsearch', 1, 2);
 		$this->assert_search_not_found('loremipsumdedo');
+		$this->assert_search_found('barsearch-testing', 1, 2); // test hyphen ignored
+		$this->assert_search_found('barsearch+-+testing', 1, 2); // test hyphen wrapped with space ignored
+		$this->assert_search_not_found('barsearch+-testing'); // test excluding keyword
 
 		$this->login();
 		$this->admin_login();