Hello, Greg.
> In Zend Search Lucene is it possible for query terms to partially match?
> Like Happy* matching Happyness
There are two ways to skin this cat.
1. Stemming - reducing a word to it's constant part, so that "happ" +
any combination of "-less", "-ness", "-ly", "-er", etc would match.
Note that you don't use wildcards in queries, matching happens
automatically.
Stemming is presently supported and stemmer filters are available for
many languages.
2. Actual wildcard queries are not yet implemented, but if (having
considered stemming) you still really need one, you can make quick
and dirty version on your own.
I've made it this way. I extract full terms dictionary (array), filter
it for everything that matches "term*", and re-run query as "(term1 OR
term2 OR termN). Not very effective, but takes only 2 or 3 lines of
code.
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