: Programatically you can use PhrasePrefixQuery - see Lucene's test : case code for examples of how it's used, but it is a bit of work to : set up.
That's only needed if you assume that the field contains tokenized text. if the whole name is indexed as a single Term, then a regular prefix query should work -- in fact, telling QueryParser to use an Analyzer that doesn't do any tokenizing should work too. : > Is there a way to get lucene to get "satisfied" after matching "john" : > and then require a second j-word to return a match for j* : : In short, not easily, but it is possible with PhrasePrefixQuery : programatically. QueryParser does not support this at all currently. : : : Erik : : > The error might be on my end though. : > If I have the same person registered as "john carlson" and "john : > doe carlson" : > I add both values to the name field -- could that be it? If that is so : > I wouldn't expect lucene to return the hit if I search for e.g. "john : > joh* jo*" ? : > : > At least I'd like to boost the ranking of the results that match : > better. Right now "john j*" gives me john thompson as the top hit even : > though there are heaps of john johnsons. : > : > I hope you can point me in the right direction. : > Thanks : > : > /Lasse : > : > My query parser code looks like this: : > QueryParser parser = new QueryParser(field, _analyzer); : > parser.setOperator(QueryParser.DEFAULT_OPERATOR_AND); : > parser.setLocale(new Locale("DA", "dk")); : > Query q = parser.parse(value); : > query.add(q, required, false); : > : > --------------------------------------------------------------------- : > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : > : : : --------------------------------------------------------------------- : To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]