Wild card searching not working properly

[Roopesh P Raj <ro...@digitalglue.in>]

Dear All,

I am using solr in my project. But I find that wildcard searching is not 
working properly.

For example, following are the search queries and the corresponding results
tomcat* -> 3 results
tomca* -> 0 results
tom*at -> 0 results
tom~at -> 0 results
Where as all the queries should have returned the same result. Can 
anyone please tell me what I have to do to make this proper.

Thanks in advance
Roopesh

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DigitalGlue, India

Re: Wild card searching not working properly

[Chris Hostetter <ho...@fucit.org>]

Problems like this depend heavily on example what the fieldtype and 
"index" analyzer is for the field you are querying on.  it's important to 
keep in mind that wildcard and fuzzy queries are not "analyzed" so things 
like lowercasing and stemming have to be taken into account -- typically 
it's useful to use copyField to have a special version of your field with 
simplified analysis for doing wildcard searches on.

as for your specific problem: given the limited information you've 
provided, no guesses immediately jump out at me as to what you should od 
to get things working the way you want ... it depends on your schema, and 
what the orriginal text was in those 3 documents you want to match.

: For example, following are the search queries and the corresponding results
: tomcat* -> 3 results
: tomca* -> 0 results
: tom*at -> 0 results
: tom~at -> 0 results


-Hoss