Searching for asterisk in a term

[ya...@bloglines.com]

Hi,

I'm trying to search for a term that contains an asterisk.  

This
is the field that I indexed:
- new Field("testField", "Hello *foo bar", true,
true, true);

I'm trying to find this document by matching '*foo':
- new
TermQuery(new Term("testField", "*me"));

I've also tried to escape the
* like this:
- new TermQuery(new Term("testField", "\\*me"));

Neither
of these queries return this document.  Is this type of search possible with
Lucene?

Thanks.

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Re: Searching for asterisk in a term

[Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@yahoo.com>]

The first thing you'll want to check is that you are using an Analyzer
that does not discard that '*' before indexing.  StandardAnalyzer, for
instance, will discard it.  Check one of Erik Hatcher's articles that
includes a tool that helps you see what your Analyzer does with the any
given text input.  You can also use Luke to see what your index
contains.

Otis

--- yahootintin.1247688@bloglines.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to search for a term that contains an asterisk.  
> 
> This
> is the field that I indexed:
> - new Field("testField", "Hello *foo bar", true,
> true, true);
> 
> I'm trying to find this document by matching '*foo':
> - new
> TermQuery(new Term("testField", "*me"));
> 
> I've also tried to escape the
> * like this:
> - new TermQuery(new Term("testField", "\\*me"));
> 
> Neither
> of these queries return this document.  Is this type of search
> possible with
> Lucene?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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