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Erik Hatcher commented on LUCENE-489: ------------------------------------- There are term rotation techniques that allow for efficient wildcard querying. For example, the word "cat" can be indexed as "cat", "$cat", "t$ca", and "at$c". For a query of "a*, the search can be rotated to search for a*. > Wildcard Queries with leading "*" > --------------------------------- > > Key: LUCENE-489 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-489 > Project: Lucene - Java > Type: Wish > Components: QueryParser > Reporter: Peter Schäfer > > It would be nice to have wildcard queries with a leading wildcard ("?" or > "*"). > I'm aware that this is a well-known issue, and I do understand the reasons > behind it, > but try explaining that to our end-users ... :-( -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
