A hacky trick I used was put a stop weird instead of the asterisk. If you search for "foo a test" and use an analyzer that includes a stop filter (like StandardAnalyzer does), it will match docs 1 and 2.
On Jul 4, 2012 10:13 AM, "Jochen Hebbrecht" <jochenhebbre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Ian, I'll give it a try! > > 2012/7/3 Ian Lea <ian....@gmail.com> > > > You can use the QueryParser proximity feature e.g. "foo test"~n where > > n is the max distance you want them to be apart. Or look at the > > SpanQuery stuff e.g. SpanNearQuery. > > > > > > -- > > Ian. > > > > > > On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Jochen Hebbrecht > > <jochenhebbre...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Imagine you have the following books which are indexed using Lucene > > > > > > book1 -> title: "foo bar test" > > > book2 -> title: "foo barrr test" > > > book3 -> title: "foo bar bar" > > > > > > I want to find book1 and book2 using the following query "foo * test". > > But > > > if I pass this string to the QueryParser, the QueryParser seems to be > > > searching for a literal '*' character. > > > Any idea's how to fix this? > > > > > > Thanks! > > > Jochen > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > >
