On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Ian Lea <ian....@gmail.com> wrote: > It's reasonable that "block-major" won't find anything. > "block-major-57" should match. >
Thank you Ian, I understand. But my question is why wouldn't " block-major** *" match?, please note the wildcard at the end! Thanks. > > The split into block and major-57 will be because, from the javadocs > for ClassicTokenizer, "Splits words at hyphens, unless there's a > number in the token, in which case the whole token is interpreted as a > product number and is not split.". So I guess it splits on the first > hyphen but not the second. > > ClassicAnalyzer/Tokenizer is general purpose and will never meet > everyone's requirement all the time. You could try a different > analyzer, or build your own. That's what the javadoc recommends. > > > -- > Ian. > > > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Ramprakash Ramamoorthy > <youngestachie...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Sorry, hit the send button accidentally the last time. Please read below > : > > > > Hello, > > > > We're using lucene 4.1. We have the word "*block-major-57*" > > indexed. Using the classic analyzer, we get the following tokens : > *block*and > > *major-57*. > > > > I search for *block-major*, *the document doesn't match. > > However searching for *block** works perfect. Is this a bug, or am I > doing > > something wrong? > > > > > > -- > > With Thanks and Regards, > > Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, > > Chennai, India. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > -- With Thanks and Regards, Ramprakash Ramamoorthy, Chennai, India
