Technically, should also indicate that backslashes need to be escaped to
include them in a wildcard term.
-- Jack Krupansky
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Subject: svn commit: r1384427 -
/lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/WildcardQuery.java
Author: rmuir
Date: Thu Sep 13 17:42:18 2012
New Revision: 1384427
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1384427&view=rev
Log:
add note about escaping terms
Modified:
lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/WildcardQuery.java
Modified:
lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/WildcardQuery.java
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/WildcardQuery.java?rev=1384427&r1=1384426&r2=1384427&view=diff
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lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/WildcardQuery.java
(original)
+++
lucene/dev/trunk/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/search/WildcardQuery.java
Thu Sep 13 17:42:18 2012
@@ -28,7 +28,10 @@ import java.util.List;
/** Implements the wildcard search query. Supported wildcards are
<code>*</code>, which
* matches any character sequence (including the empty one), and
<code>?</code>,
- * which matches any single character. Note this query can be slow, as it
+ * which matches any single character. If you want to treat a wildcard as a
literal
+ * character instead, escape it with '\'.
+ * <p>
+ * Note this query can be slow, as it
* needs to iterate over many terms. In order to prevent extremely slow
WildcardQueries,
* a Wildcard term should not start with the wildcard <code>*</code>
*
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