Hi

I bet you are using an analyzer that is downcasing isbn:007149216X to
isbn:007149216x.  I've been there! Options include creating the query
programmatically, using PerFieldAnalyzerWrapper, downcasing everything
yourself in advance.  Or convert to ISBN-13.


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Ian.


On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Ulf Dittmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I'm experiencing a weird issue searching an index. The
> index has information about books, and one of the
> fields is the ISBN number. It is stored in the index
> in untokenized form to enable searches by ISBN. So a
> query like "isbn:0071490833" would return the Document
> for that book. But it doesn't find the document if the
> ISBN ends in an "X", like "isbn:007149216X".
>
> I know it's stored correctly, because if I retrieve
> the document through a different query, I see that the
> field contains the correct value.
>
> It also works fine if I search for "isbn:007149216?".
>
> Is the "X" some kind of special syntax?
>
> Many thanks in advance for any hints,
> Ulf

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