How to narrow down pacman -Ss result?

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When I look for a package in repos I use for example:
pacman -Ss icon theme and I have pretty good results

But if package name is very short. Like go then there are a lot of results in output

Sometimes I use pacman -Ss package | grep 'some details'

But is it possible to search for packages by exact name? For example if I do pacman -Ss go I dont want to see:
gobby
or
go-…

And the same for the begenning of pacgage name.
I don’t want to see results like:
xxxgoxxx
or
xxx-go

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You can use regex. For example:

pacman -Ss ^python$
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