Wildcard question

[Carlos de Luna Saenz <cd...@yahoo.com.mx>]

I've used Lucene 2,3 and now 4... i used to believe that * wildcard on the begining was acepted since 3 (but never used) and reviewing documentation says "Note: You cannot use a * or ? symbol as the first character of a search." is that ok or is a missupdated note on the http://lucene.apache.org/core/4_4_0/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/classic/package-summary.html#package_description documentation?
Thanks in advance.

Re: Wildcard question

[Jack Krupansky <ja...@basetechnology.com>]

You get to decide:

class QueryParser extends QueryParserBase:

/**
* Set to <code>true</code> to allow leading wildcard characters.
* <p>
* When set, <code>*</code> or <code>?</code> are allowed as
* the first character of a PrefixQuery and WildcardQuery.
* Note that this can produce very slow
* queries on big indexes.
* <p>
* Default: false.
*/
@Override
public void setAllowLeadingWildcard(boolean allowLeadingWildcard) {
  this.allowLeadingWildcard = allowLeadingWildcard;
}

And the default is "false" (leading wildcard not allowed.)

-- Jack Krupansky

-----Original Message----- 
From: Carlos de Luna Saenz
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 6:32 PM
To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
Subject: Wildcard question

I've used Lucene 2,3 and now 4... i used to believe that * wildcard on the 
begining was acepted since 3 (but never used) and reviewing documentation 
says "Note: You cannot use a * or ? symbol as the first character of a 
search." is that ok or is a missupdated note on the 
http://lucene.apache.org/core/4_4_0/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/classic/package-summary.html#package_description 
documentation?
Thanks in advance. 


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