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Hello,

> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Brian Goetz [mailto:brian@quiotix.com]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. Mai 2002 23:10
> An: Lucene Developers List
> Betreff: Re: [Bug 8307] - WildcardQuery broken for '?' characters in
> query
>
>
> > I have looked into the QueryParser code and the problem
> appears to be the
> > differentiation between a TERM and a WILDTERM. If a term
> contains a question
> > mark it is not treated as a WILDTERM but as a TERM because
> the question mark
> > is a letter that can be part of a TERM.
>
> This should be addressed in the unit test for the query parser. Can
> you provide me with examples of the queries that are parsed
> incorrectly?

As I said I had attached a version of TestWildCard including some queries
that fail. The essential code is:

try {
Query query5 = QueryParser.parse("m?tal", "body", new SimpleAnalyzer());
Query query6 = QueryParser.parse("metal?", "body", new SimpleAnalyzer());
Query query7 = QueryParser.parse("metals?", "body", new SimpleAnalyzer());
Query query8 = QueryParser.parse("m?t?ls", "body", new SimpleAnalyzer());

result = searcher.search(query5);
assertEquals(1, result.length());

result = searcher.search(query6);
assertEquals(2, result.length());

result = searcher.search(query7);
assertEquals(1, result.length());

result = searcher.search(query8);
assertEquals(3, result.length());
} catch (ParseException e) {
}

> > Another question concerning the QueryParser. I made another change
> > to the QueryParser (QueryParser2.jj) that allows to search for terms
> > starting with a wildcard. Is there any reason why Lucene does not
> > support this by default?
>
> This was deliberate. It would be a performance disaster.

Are there any performance numbers that can underline this?

Thanks
Ralf


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