> 1) to what extent are wildcards supported by lucenes? 

You can use * and ? the way they usually are used.

> 2) what are the known bugs and where can i find the relevant
> documentation pertaining to them?

Why do you think there are bugs in the first place?  Have you
encountered any bugs?

> 3) Is there some specific way in which the indexes are to be built,
> for them to return wildchar based search results? I believe there is
> but i am not sure where to look for that information.

No, nothing special needs to be done.

Otis

> thanks 
> Rishabh
> 
> 
> --
> 
> On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:19:11  
>  Otis Gospodnetic wrote:
> >The thread more suited for lucene-user.
> >
> >I think that's just a bad work to be indexing....Microsoft...sheesh.
> >Ok, it's not.  This is a known thing, even mentioned in the FAQ on
> >jGuru.
> >For how StandardFilter works it's best to look at the source, it's
> >quite simple.  I think I might have mentioned that in the Lucene
> >article on Onjava.com as well....not 100% sure any more :)
> >
> >Otis
> >
> >
> >--- Lukas Zapletal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >> 
> >> I have a small problem. Let`s have a word 'Microsoft' indexed in
> >> Lucene. 
> >> When I query Microsoft, it returns the document, but when I try
> >> Micro* 
> >> then nothing is found. After lowercasing the first letter to
> micro* 
> >> Lucene returns the document.
> >> 
> >> The same thing is with ?. When I use it, only lower-cased words
> are
> >> matched.
> >> 
> >> Is this a bug or Am I missing something?
> >> 
> >> ps - where can I find some information how Lucene parse the input
> >> when 
> >> using StandardFilter. I mean I don`t know what is ignored and what
> >> not. 
> >> For example acronyms (U.S.A), dates (2002-11-07 or 1. 1. 2003)
> etc...
> >> I 
> >> cannot find it in the documentation. In the StandardFilter API
> there
> >> is 
> >> onthing, it seems to be generated from JavaCC.
> >> 
> >> -- 
> >> Lukas Zapletal      [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >> http://www.tanecni-olomouc.cz/lzap
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
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