Thanks Erik. Option 2 sounds like the path of least resistance.
Luke
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erik Hatcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Lucene Users List" <lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: Query Question
> On Feb 17, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Luke Shannon wrote:
> > My manager is now totally stuck about being able to query data with *
> > in it.
>
> He's gonna have to wait a bit longer, you've got a slightly tricky
> situation on your hands....
>
> > WildcardQuery(new Term("name", "*home\**"));
>
> The \* is the problem. WildcardQuery doesn't deal with escaping like
> you're trying. Your query is essentially this now:
>
> home\*
>
> Where backslash has no special meaning at all... you're literally
> looking for all terms that start with home followed by a backslash.
> Two asterisks at the end really collapse into a single one logically.
>
> > Any theories as to why the it would not match:
> >
> > Document (relevant fields):
> > Keyword<type:203>
> > Keyword<name:marcipan + home*>
> >
> > Is the \ escaping both * characters?
>
> So, again, no escaping is being done here. You're a bit stuck in this
> situation because * (and ?) are special to WildcardQuery, and it does
> no escaping. Two options I think of:
>
> - Build your own clone of WildcardQuery that does escaping - or
> perhaps change the wildcard characters to something you do not index
> and use those instead.
>
> - Replace asterisks in the terms indexed with some other non-wildcard
> character, then replace it on your queries as appropriate.
>
> Erik
>
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