In a way, *term searches are supported - just iterate through every term in
TermEnum. Unfortunately, this is a linear O(n) algorithm so it does become
very slow as the number of terms in the index increases. If your index is
small (eg, < 1GB), I find the search time still pretty acceptable.
Otherwise, the I suggest you be a little creative in the way you create your
index (eg, keep search terms in reverse "mret*" instead of "*term")
Dave Kor Kian Wei
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sheldon Shi [mailto:sshi@tightlink.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 9:11 AM
> To: 'lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org'
> Subject: Wildcard search - Why can't I search for *term?
>
>
> As I understand it Lucene does not support wildcard search terms
> in the form of *term. But in my project I need to search for
> terms by their tails. Does anyone have a work around?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sheldon
>
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