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--- Pradeep Kumar K <pradeepk@robosoftin.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> Query qr=
> QueryParser.parse("*deep","name",new SimpleAnalyzer());
> While searching the number of hits returned by the above
> query is 0.
> But when I removed * and used full value 'pradeep' there
> It returned correct number of hits.
>
> What may be reason?. I am using latest Lucene build.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Pradeep
>
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I read somewhere that you can not have * as the first char of the term.

- gene

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pradeep Kumar K" <pradeepk@robosoftin.com>
To: <lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 9:10 AM
Subject: Search using wild characters


> Hi
>
>
> Query qr=
> QueryParser.parse("*deep","name",new SimpleAnalyzer());
> While searching the number of hits returned by the above
> query is 0.
> But when I removed * and used full value 'pradeep' there
> It returned correct number of hits.
>
> What may be reason?. I am using latest Lucene build.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Pradeep
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Robosoft Technologies, Mangalore, India
>
>
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Postfix wildcards of the form "*term" has never been supported in Lucene
because it requires a slow linear search through the entire list of words.
If you really need this kind of search, an inelegant hack I have used is to
invert all words (eg, "pradeep" into "peedarp") and store them in a
different field. Thus when a user tries to search for "*deep", invert the
term into "peed*" and search in the inverted field.



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pradeep Kumar K [mailto:pradeepk@robosoftin.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 12:11 AM
> To: lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org
> Subject: Search using wild characters
>
>
> Hi
>
>
> Query qr=
> QueryParser.parse("*deep","name",new SimpleAnalyzer());
> While searching the number of hits returned by the above
> query is 0.
> But when I removed * and used full value 'pradeep' there
> It returned correct number of hits.
>
> What may be reason?. I am using latest Lucene build.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Pradeep
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Robosoft Technologies, Mangalore, India
>
>
>
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