> 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > > > > > >__________________________________________________ > >Do you Yahoo!? > >Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > >http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________ > Get 25MB, POP3, Spam Filtering with LYCOS MAIL PLUS for $19.95/year. > http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus&ref=lmtplus > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]